06-22-2023, 02:18 PM
(06-22-2023, 01:10 PM)somethingelseishere Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2LWcHIyNWQ
After a certain point - technology is just gross, unnecessary and weaponized against
the population.
NASA developed the first VR headset in 1968. Scientists were able to walk around a virtual 3D wireframe cube, and that was about all.
The first mass VR craze happened around 1992, and fizzled out after a few years. The first DIY headsets were made with low-resolution LCDs harvested from the pocket TVs that were around at the time. There was a lot of talk about augmented reality (which they're now calling mixed reality) someday being useful in medicine and mechanical repairs, among other things.
Oliver Stone made a miniseries called Wild Palms in 1993 about corporations using VR to take over America.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106175/
One of my favorite TV shows in the 90s was VR.5. It debuted the same night as The X Files on Fox, and lasted only one season.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112209/
Google came out with their shitty Google Glass product in 2013. Rather than rendering the text directly in front of you, as an augmented reality headset should, you had to look up in the corner of your field of vision at a tiny screen. There was a big uproar about privacy when dorks starting wearing them in public. That didn't last very long either. Google will be retiring the product this year.
More recently, Meta/Facebook bet the farm on VR, blowing $10 billion on their Metaverse project, which practically nobody is interested in.
