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Origins: The stereoscopic
Charles Wheatstones invented the stereoscopic photos and viewers which turned into in the first moment that a person could view images in 3D or certainly into a virtual tourism -
The simulators
Edwin Edward Link invented the Link trainer which was the first true flight simulator and furthermore it was used in the World War Two by over 500 thousand pilots for their beginning training -
The first reference of the Virtual Reality in the literature
Stanley Wainbaum wrote the classic Pygmalion spectacles where a man as reality googles take him into a fictional world -
Sensorama
The creation of Morton Heilig whose purpose was an experience theatre, it means it was a box stick in your head, then watch a movie and have all your senses -
The concept of the Virtual Reality borns
The Philco corporation engineers Carlo and Brian created head sight and it wasn't even thought to have virtual reality in mind it was supposed to be used by the military to view places naturally than one could not normally be. It allowed you to put on goggles and had a camara that was tracking the way you were looking through and you can see through the cameras eyes -
The first VR headphone
Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproul created the first VR headphone and display that was actually connected to a computer not just connected to another camera. So despite of the primitive machine that was, too was the first true form of TC of VR -
New prototype
Heilig worked in a prototype able to display stereoscopic 3d images in a wide angle view provide body tilting, play stereo sound, trigger blast of wind and aromas at specific points during each of the five purpose-built short films -
Damocles due
Ivan Sutherland with the ultimate display he created the world's first head monte display or hmd which is called Damocles due -
The Data Club
Jaron Lanier developed the data club an ancestor of the infamous power glove from the Entertainment System -
NASA innovation
The NASA made a virtual enviroment workstation, which consisted of two LCD TV displays wide-angle stereoscopic optics and a motorcycle helmet -
Jaron Lanier, the man who named the VR
Jaron Lanier founder of the visual programming lab, gave us the name Virtual Reality -
The firs VR videogames
Borned the arcade machines which consisted of a machines with stereoscopic 3d visuals and mind-blowing 276 by 372 resoultion -
SEGA VR
SEGA announced SEGA VR and so began the interest in the virtual reality -
The Virtual Boy
Borned the Virtual Boy, which was a tabletop in 32 bits, 3D videogame developed by Nintendo furthermore it was a portable video game console capable of displaying true 3D graphics. Even though it had many problems which someones were the unconfortable and the expensive that was the console -
The inspirational Randy Parrish
Randy Pausch Parrish founded the building virtual words course at Carnie Mellon University who inspired countless students to work in the field and propel technology forward -
The Oculus rift
Started a kickstarter project called Oculus rift and advanced technology of the virtual reality that improved so much compared to the previous projects -
HTC and their new directions
HTC furthermore of make smarthphones they planned change directions and dedicates to make new advanced technologies like second way of the cellphones and so borns the "HTC Future Development Lab" -
Valve in the VR
Valve begins tests for their VR goggles and work with Oculus for can improve their machine unfortunatley Valve had worse graphics than Oculus Rift -
Facebook enters to the VR
Facebook buys the Oculus Rift per 2.000 million dollars -
The VIVE'S birth
VALVE and HTC reveals VIVE's to the market, this would be the culmination of a lot of hard work
