Five years earlier he created Sketchpad as part of his Ph.D. It’s remarkable how small this 1960s world of techncial inventions and innovations was.Ĭrazy enough, these far out 3-D virtual reality glasses from 1968 were by no means the most important of Sutherlands creations. Licklider as the head of ARPA’s Information Processing Techniques Office a few years earlier in 1964. So, the same guy who designed the Sword of Damocles had replaced J.C.R. from the 1998 history of the internet Where Wizards Stay Up Late that I read early this semester. While reading through the documents framing out these innovation in graphic user interfaces I recognized the name of their author, Ivan Sutherland. I followed up on a number of the documents linked in this post, and what struck me was that virtual reality was (like the mouse, the internet, video conferencing, online dating, etc.) yet another pioneering technology realized during the 1960s. The above GIF, text, and video came by way of this post on the Prosthetic Knowledge tumblr. Unfortunately I was unable to locate a visual demo of it at the time, but thanks to Thomas Richter, he sent me a link to a short video demonstrating it in action: Earlier this week, I covered “The Sword of Damocles”, the first pioneering example of virtual and augmented reality technology from 1968.
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