Virtual reality
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Virtual reality is a simulated experience that employs 3D head-mounted displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include enterta
Researchers with the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, equipped with a VR headset and motion controllers, demonstrating how astronauts might use virtual reality in the future to train to extinguish a fire inside a lunar habitat
An operator controlling The Virtual Interface Environment Workstation (VIEW) at NASA Ames around 1990
An Omni treadmill being used at a VR convention
A Missouri National Guardsman looks into a VR training head-mounted display at Fort Leonard Wood in 2015.
Jaron Lanier
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Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Resea
Virtual reality
…was used a 1982 novel by Damien Broderick, The Judas Mandala. Widespread adoption of the term "virtual reality" in the popular media is attributed to Jaron Lanier, who in the late 1980s designed some of the first business-grade virtual reality hardware under his firm VPL Research, and the 1992 film Lawnmower Man…
Lanier in 2010
Lanier performing at the Garden of Memory Solstice Concert in June 2009