VR History: From The Past To The Future

Suellen Schuman dons the tools of virtual reality, an electronic helmet and a large joystick during a demonstration of "Reality +" at the Virtual Reality Systems 93 show in New York Tuesday, March 16, 1993. The device is described as a next generation, multi-player virtual reality entertainment system which gives a high sense of movement in a computer-generated world revealed in a head-mounted display. The emerging technology is also expected to have roles in medicine, design and education. "Reality+" is a product of Virtual Images, Inc., of Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

In 1993, there was an excellent “hoopla” about virtual reality. I am talking about how it could nearly touch in 93 where virtual reality was just around the corner. Well, it was 17 years after we can declare that virtual reality is in days gone by, but we nevertheless have not realized it.

What occurred? What triggered the radical breakthrough pronounced a lot of times to vanish? Did we lost interest in virtual reality before? Well the points that have been assured then were just a desire of a couple of people who believed it possible to generate virtual reality headsets that we were all intended to use by 1997. It seems that we were correct, although many of us wished for it, we thought of it as a remote future regardless of what we learned in the the headlines.

Comparing the computers in 1993 as well as computers with this age, we have 1,000 instances more powerful and faster computers and it’s nevertheless not possible to produce a virtual reality headset that won’t split up the semblance. It is just not possible to not use the technology that is present. Why we nevertheless do not have a virtual reality headset in our back pack, but that’s not the sole reason.

Things have changed because in the early 1990s, we no more need to see virtual reality. It kinda sucked. And so the emphasis of engineering studied has changed to making an improved environment and technologies that will help us in our every day life to enjoying goals.

For all these lovers out there, this isn’t the ending. There are firms working continuously with this technology like Vuzix where one day, we might as well have that long-awaited headset flashing with virtual reality. But might it be it be exciting and interesting as we expected 20 years past? Only time will tell.

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