NASA'S REVOLUTIONARY NEW TECHNOLOGY:
Beginning in 1984, Michael McGreevy created the first of NASA's virtual environment workstations (also known as personal simulators and Virtual Reality systems) for use in human-computer interface research.
With contractors Jim Humphries, Saim Eriskin and Joe Deardon, he designed and built the Virtual Visual Environment Display system (VIVED, pronounced "vivid"), the first low-cost, wide field-of-view, stereo, head-tracked, head-mounted display.Clones of this design, and extensions of it, are still predominant in the VR market.
Next, McGreevy configured the workstation hardware: a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/40 computer, an Evans and Sutherland Picture System 2 with two 19" monitors, a Polhemus head and hand tracker, video cameras, custom video circuitry, and the VIVED system. With Amy Wu, McGreevy wrote the software for NASA's first virtual environment workstation. The first demonstrations of this Virtual Reality system at NASA were conducted by McGreevy in early 1985 for local researchers and managers, as well as visitors from universities, industry, and the military.
Since that time, over two dozen technical contributors at NASA Ames have worked to develop Virtual Reality for applications including planetary terrain exploration, computational fluid dynamics, and space station telerobotics. In October 1987 Scientific American featured VIVED--a minimal system, but one which demonstrated that a cheap immersive system was possible.
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[SIZE=-1]Virtual Reality — a three dimensional, computer generated simulation in which one can navigate around, interact with, and be immersed in another environment
(John Briggs - The Futurist)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Virtual Reality — the use of computer technology to create the effect of an interactive three-dimensional world in which the objects have a sense of spatial presence.
(Steve Bryson - NASA Ames)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The actual term "Virtual Reality" is attributed to Jaron Lanier of VPL in 1986 in a conversation regarding the work of Scott Fisher. Fisher, of NASA Ames, had been referring to the field as "Virtual Environments". [/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Myron Krueger labeled the activity "Artificial Reality" in 1983, the title of his book, and a year later, William Gibson coined the term "Cyberspace" in his book Neuromancer.
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While multi-million dollar military systems have used head-mounted displays in the years since Sutherland's work, the notion of a personal virtual environment system as a general purpose user-computer interface was generally neglected for almost twenty years. (John Briggs - The Futurist)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Virtual Reality — the use of computer technology to create the effect of an interactive three-dimensional world in which the objects have a sense of spatial presence.
(Steve Bryson - NASA Ames)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The actual term "Virtual Reality" is attributed to Jaron Lanier of VPL in 1986 in a conversation regarding the work of Scott Fisher. Fisher, of NASA Ames, had been referring to the field as "Virtual Environments". [/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Myron Krueger labeled the activity "Artificial Reality" in 1983, the title of his book, and a year later, William Gibson coined the term "Cyberspace" in his book Neuromancer.
CyberEdge Information Services: Lexicon[/SIZE]
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Beginning in 1984, Michael McGreevy created the first of NASA's virtual environment workstations (also known as personal simulators and Virtual Reality systems) for use in human-computer interface research.
With contractors Jim Humphries, Saim Eriskin and Joe Deardon, he designed and built the Virtual Visual Environment Display system (VIVED, pronounced "vivid"), the first low-cost, wide field-of-view, stereo, head-tracked, head-mounted display.Clones of this design, and extensions of it, are still predominant in the VR market.
Next, McGreevy configured the workstation hardware: a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/40 computer, an Evans and Sutherland Picture System 2 with two 19" monitors, a Polhemus head and hand tracker, video cameras, custom video circuitry, and the VIVED system. With Amy Wu, McGreevy wrote the software for NASA's first virtual environment workstation. The first demonstrations of this Virtual Reality system at NASA were conducted by McGreevy in early 1985 for local researchers and managers, as well as visitors from universities, industry, and the military.
Since that time, over two dozen technical contributors at NASA Ames have worked to develop Virtual Reality for applications including planetary terrain exploration, computational fluid dynamics, and space station telerobotics. In October 1987 Scientific American featured VIVED--a minimal system, but one which demonstrated that a cheap immersive system was possible.
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