While Oculus, Samsung, and Sony are busy getting all the headlines about virtual reality headsets, the old timers among us are leaning back, arms folded, saying, "Mmm hmm." That's because they've seen it all before. In the early 1990s, technology firms, especially video game companies, fell over themselves in a rush to capitalize on VR Buzz 1.0 by announcing (and in a few cases releasing) their very own virtual reality headset hardware.
That buzz was generated by truly pioneering work in VR at places like NASA and a few major universities during the 1980s. But despite the quality of their work (and the almost adorable sincerity of the commercial VR products that followed), it didn't keep people from looking fairly ridiculous while using this nascent technology, especially when posed for press photos. So that's what you're going to see ahead: people looking silly using VR a long time ago.
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