Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In fact, Apple’s patents in this field tell us that the company has been thinking about immersive wearables for a long time; patents filed at least as far back as 2007 show a device that looks much like the VR headsets we see today.

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Apple AR Head Mounted Display Augmented Reality 100

Doc-Ok

JUNE 8, 2016

The method of claim 1, wherein said location of said user is determined by continually monitoring the location of a portion of said head-mounted display. So important and clever, in fact, that Valve recently filed a patent about it. I’d like to direct viewers’ attentions to time point 0:52 in the video.

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Head Mounted Display Video Filming Software 40

VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2017

Head mounted displays were clunky, computer processing speeds laughable, and 3D graphics downright primitive in comparison to what’s available VR today. Virtual Iraq VRET was developed from 2005-2007 as an answer to the military’s problem at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies.

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Iraq Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display Technology 205

VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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Data Glove Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display Simulation 51