Immersive Experiences Cave Art Chauvet Cave Ardeche France

Immersive Experiences

Cave Art Chauvet Cave Ardeche France 30000 -28000 BC

Plato’s Cave

Immersive Rituals L: Pablo Amaringo, ‘Caspi Maman’ R: Bwiti people during Iboga Ceremony

Shadow Puppetry

Indonesian Shadow Puppetry (wayang kulit)

Churches Great East Window at York Minster 1400’s

Pepper’s Ghost

Phantasmagoria

The Dark Ride

Panoramic Paintings Cross-section of the Rotunda in Leicester Square in which the panorama of London was exhibited (1801)

Stereoscopic Photo and Viewers Stereoscope invented by Charles Wheatstone, 1838

Stereoscopic Camera

Lenticular Stereoscope David Brewster 1849

How lenticulars works

Binaural Audio 1881

First Simulator 1929

Goggles! 1935

The View Master William Gruber Roughly 1938

War of the Worlds Orson Welles https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=n. PEn 5 k 55 g-o

Sensorama

Headsight • 1961: The next year Corme and Byen built the first helmet called Headsight, that had attached one CRT screen and, using a tracking magnetic system, knew the direction of the head. This apparatus was created for military applications. The idea was controlling something remotely, for instance, a vehicle in a dangerous situation. The user was seeing the video that was sending the video camera of the vehicle.

First head-mounted three-dimensional displays

1967 Interactive Cinema • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=x 1 TLcz 3 UFg 8

Sword of Damocles

First VR Exhibition • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=dmmx. VA 5 xhuo • • Shorter vid https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=dq. Zy. Zr. N 3 Pl 0 1989

• In 1972, the General Electric Corporation had built one of the first computerized flight simulators, using three screens surrounding the training cockpit to provide a 180 -degree field of view that simulated flying conditions. In 1979, virtual reality technology was incorporated into a head-mounted display developed by the Mc. Donnell-Douglas Corporation.

Haptic / Tactile Devices

“Aspen Movie Map” • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=2 Ytd 12 d 6 q. Nw • 1977

Smell-o-vision Polyester John Waters 1981

Neuromancer • 1984 Neuromancer author William Gibbons writes his 1 st novel - a cyberpunk, story that coined the term cyberspace and influenced many artists and scientist to imagine interdependent space where technologically hybridized-humans existed in ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ spaces.

VR • 1987 when Jaron Lanier, founder of the visual programming lab (VPL), coined and popularised the term “virtual reality”. VPL research Jaron developed a range of virtual reality gear including the Dataglove and the Eye. Phone head mounted display through his company. They were the first company to ever sell Virtual Reality goggles which was a major development in the area of virtaul reality haptics.

VR GAMING

Lawnmower Man • First film exploring VR Lawnmower Man is released • The movie introduced the concept of virtual reality to a wider audience. It was in part based on the founder of Virtual Reality Jaron Lanier and his early laboratory days. Jaron was played by Pierce Brosnan, a scientist who used virtual reality therapy on a mentally disabled patient.