EMERGING TRENDS IN COMPUTING
VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY
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1968
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2002
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1945
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1977
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Detailed explanation-1: -1968. Sutherland, with his student Bob Sproull, created the first virtual reality HMD, named The Sword of Damocles. This head-mount connected to a computer rather than a camera and was quite primitive as it could only show simple virtual wire-frame shapes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Heilig also patented a head-mounted display device, called the Telesphere Mask, in 1960. Many inventors would build upon his foundational work. By 1965, another inventor, Ivan Sutherland, offered “the Ultimate Display, ‘’ a head-mounted device that he suggested would serve as a “window into a virtual world.”
Detailed explanation-3: -History. The Sega VR, announced in 1991 and seen in early 1993 at the Winter CES, was never released for consoles, but was utilized for the Sega VR-1 motion simulator arcade attraction in 1994. Another early VR headset, the Forte VFX1, was announced at CES in 1994.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first consumer-level VR headsets were released in 2016. These headsets, such as the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive, are considered the first-generation of VR headsets.