History

The first ideas of VR was made at Hollywood in a movie, but the first patented idea for a VR headset was made by Morton Heilig 1957 and patented in 1962.

Sadly, it never got made in Morton's life but made the foundations of VR technology

This is the first actual headset.

It makes a cube in front of you.

Some would complain it is augmented reality not VR because it uses a camera to place a virtual cube in real life.

Thomas Furness made a flight simulator called the "Super Cockpit" for the military.

The headset could make computer generated 3D maps, infrared and radar imagery.

The ''Super Cockpit'' could track gestures, speech and even eye movements.

According to the makers of this project costs hundreds of millions.

Sega was one of the first ones to attempt to launch a consumer VR headset.

The arcade version was released, but the console version was cancelled.

The Unity Rift kickstarter was the first consumer VR headset to have 110 degree field of view.

It started in 2010, and a few years later raised $2.4 million on kickstarter.

In 2014 Facebook purchased the company for $2 Billion!

Currently the idea of VR has not been publicized yet currently VR headsets are more of a hobbyist idea!

In a few years VR will probably be more widely known and sold at JB HI-FI.

In the next decade or so it will become something like a Xbox.

Imagine when VR and AR are like phones, super common.