A Brief History Of VR And AR
TechCrunch, Wednesday, May 31,2023
With Apple expected to announce a mixed reality headset next week at WWDC, we take a look back at the journey of VR and AR
By the time Howard Rheingold's 'Virtual Reality' was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a 'slowly deteriorating' relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor's West Los Angeles home. Rheingold describes awe - even surprise - that the system was still operable almost 30 years after its introduction.