Virtual Reality 1979

Virtual Reality 1979 - Back in 1979 there was no such thing as "virtual reality". Heck, there was no such thing as a personal computer, either. Or computer animation, unless you count Pong, hot new game from Atari.

But that did not stop my Leonardo inside daydreaming about how we might interact with CG alternative universes.


At the time I was an anthro major at UC Berkeley. In my prognostication sophomoric, we would one day be able to enter into "a world of pure illusion, quite safe, where you can actually walk and explore!"

Here, for your amusement, is "Vision Quest," my 1979 prediction of what was supposed to. Was not the future enjoyment at the time? So why has not got there yet? Click to enlarge a page

the headrest unit :.
field Size and
Alternate Reality:
a cliff
Your friend the 8-ball:

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