Virtual Reality Highlight

1960-1962 Created by Morton Heilig Prerecorded film Augmented by binaural sound, scent, wind and vibration experience Not interactive

Sensorama a multisensory simulator

1965, by Ivan Sutherland VR construction concept that include interactive graphics, force feedback, sound, smell and taste.

The Ultimate Display

The first Head Mounted Display (HMD) with appropriate head tracking. Support a stereo view that was updated correctly according to the users head position and orientation.

The Sword of Domocles

The first prototype of a force feedback system realized at the university of Carolina (UNC), 1971

GROPE

1975, created by Myron Krueger a conceptual environment, with no existence In this system the silhouettes of the users grabbed by the camera were projected on the large screen. The participants were able to interact one with the other by image processing techniques that determine their position on 2D space.

VIDEOPLACE

Thomas Furness, 1982 Advance flight simulator A fighter pilot wore HMD that augmented the out the window view by the graphic describing targeting or optimal flight path information

VCASS

VPL company manufactures the popular DataGlove (1985) and Eyephone HMD (1988)

VPL

1989 by Fake Space Labs BOOM is a small box containing two CRT monitors that can be viewed through the virtual world, as the mechanical arm measure the position and orientation of the box.

BOOM

1990s at NASA Allow the observation of flow fields with the help of BOOM and Datagove

Virtual Wind Tunnel

1992 A virtual reality and scientific visualization system. user wear 3D glasses Image is projected on the wall

CAVE (CAVE automatic Virtual Environment)