Dawn of the new everything: encounters with reality and virtual reality

Preface: Virtual reality's moment

Introduction

1960s: terrors of Eden

Rescue spacecraft

Batch process

Why I love VR (about the basics)

Bug in the system (about the dark side of VR)

Road

Coast

Valley of unearthly delights

Alien encounters

The feeling of immersion

To don the new everything (about haptics with a little about avatars)

Nautical dawn

Six degrees (a little about sensors and VR data)

Found

Be your own paramidion (about visual displays for VR) - The VPL experience

Inside-out spheres (a little about VR "video" and sound)

Scene

How we settled into a seed for the future

1992, out

Coda: Reality's foil.