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Virtual reality is the experience of an artificial environment simulated by a computer. The environment is provided through sensory stimuli such as sights, sound, vibration, and even smells. Interactive hardware and software create a realistic and immersive simulation, often in a three-dimensional environment to provide a more lifelike experience.
Introduction
Virtual reality (VR) technology has been around for much longer than most individuals realize. In this article, we will go through the history of VR from the beginning to the more recent accomplishments.
The History of Virtual Reality
Historically speaking, we have been attempting to create experiences that put users into virtual scenes for longer than we have had electricity. Across the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the panorama was patented by the Scottish Portraitist Robert Barker in 1787, where an exhibited painting was placed on a...
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Peed, E., Lee, N. (2019). Origin of Virtual Reality. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_281-2
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