![]() Organizations were able to control several Oculus Go VR headsets at the sameįinally, last year in 2019, the most important developments were that The Oculus Rift S was released on 20 March 2019 and Oculus quest at. Started to adopt VR headsets on a larger scale. With the launch of this VR headset, organizations Oculus Go, the first commercially available wireless VR headset with a built-in And this was the year that EZ360 developed its first prototype of a kiosk-mode VR player and VR-House was the first to try it out commercially with their clients. It also showed potential for the development of a wireless VR headset. In 2017 Sony filed a patent that indicated they were developing a similar location tracking technology as the Vive for their Playstation VR. This was the first commercial release of sensor-based tracking, which allowed for free movement by the users within a predefined space in their own living room! In 2016, HTC was ready to ship its first units of the HTC Vive Steam VR headset. Millions of people to watch VR content for a low price by making use of their Also, this was the year that Google announced the Cardboard, enabling Positional tracking using infrared light. 2015-2020: Rise of Virtual RealityĪnnounced the HTC Vive headset, with controllers and base-stations to allow for Purchased by Facebook and also Sony announced a VR headset to be used later This was adopted by Oculus and used in all their future headsets. Technology of low-persistence displays, making VR content lag and smear free. Ordered through their kickstarter project. In 20 Oculus shipped their first and second development kits Of the Oculus rift in 2010 and in 2012 they presented the Rift for the first Palmer Lucky designed the first prototype However, some technologies related to virtual reality, such as google street view that eventually also supported 3D, were developed in this period. 2000-2010: Google street view and other technologiesīetween the year 20, not much worth mentioning happened when it comes to Head Mounted Displays. However, the hype around the technology had an adverse effect and led to a decrease in its popularity. 1990-2000: Decrease of popularity of VRĭuring the 1990’s, Jaron Lanier, but also Tom Zimmerman marketed a range of virtual reality gear. It was only until 1987 when Jaron Lanier used the term “Virtual Reality” for the first time when developing VR Gear. 1987: Introduction of term “Virtual Reality”īut the Headsight was not actually developed for virtual reality applications (the term didn’t exist then). Head movements would move a remote camera, allowing the user to naturally look around in the camera. This HMD was entitled ‘headsight’ and was made for helicopter pilots in the military. 1968: First Head-mounted displayĪ few years later, it is 1968 that most people argue as the year that the first Head-mounted Display (with motion tracking) was developed. The experience is about riding on a motorcycle through New York while feeling the wind blow through your hair, hearing the sounds of the city and inhaling the smells of the city. ![]() This way, the machine was capable of triggering all the senses in an effective manner. Morton Heilig called the machine the Sensorama. As you can see in the image, there is no headset involved, but a very large machine, packed with a stereoscopic color display, multiple wind fans, odor emitters, a stereo-sound system and a motional chair. 1962: First immersive experienceįast forward to 1962 is when a machine was introduced, known as one of the earliest examples of immersive, multi-sensory technologies. The design principles of the Stereoscope is used today for the popular Google Cardboard and low budget VR head mounted displays for mobile phones. With the View-Master, people could watch seven stereoscopic 3D pairs of small transparent color photographs on film. The first signs of a device that you had to put on your face in order to experience the “Virtual Reality” were there when the View-Master came out, which was patented in 1939. With these panorama paintings, there wasn’t anything involved like a VR headset. This was the year that “Panorama Mesdag” was finished, a cylindrical panorama painting of approximately 14 meters high and with a circumference of 120 meters. The painting, one of the oldest 19th-century panoramas in the world, is a view of the North Sea, the dunes, The Hague and Scheveningen (The Netherlands) 1939: First goggles 1881: Panorama paintingsīut if were to be not so strict you could argue that VR goes all the way back to the 19th century, for example to 1881. ![]() Opinions differ a lot when it comes to what can be categorized under virtual reality and what not. So before we jump into the first signs of the use of Virtual Reality it is good to know that it is hard to exactly point to the origin of virtual reality. ![]()
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