Virtually There: The History of Virtual Reality (documentary)

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1. Just wanna thank you man for making this awesome video 🙂 Peace 🙂

2. I own a Windows Mixed Reality headset myself now. It's amazing how far we've come. It's frustrating to see people who have never tried it write it off as a gimmick, too.

3. They call us early adopters but then who do you call the guys from the 80s and 90s…… legacy adopters? Lol

4. I bought a vr headset with android built in from China, it was amazing but it needs more power. The system could play up to ps2 level games and play movies in 720P and really did feel like virtual reality.

5. Damn, VR is much older than I thought. Great video, keep it up.

6. What sources did you use for this documentary?

7. Music name plz?

8. tnx… it was fabulous

9. This was brilliant thank you so much!

10. The first video game that I tried was Pong at a party in the early 80's,and we all thought that was pretty cool. I never really thought that I would be around long enuf to see gaming as it is now. VR especially!! Watching the evolution of gaming technology throughout the last decades has been amazing to see unfold. When I was young (1960's) this was the stuff of dreams.

11. An entire documentary made in Windows Live Movie Maker

    Very impressive.

12. That was fantastic. I feel us older gamers who remember the early demos we saw on Games Master are very lucky the technology has come so far so quickly. There is a free game on the rift store called Polygon Nightmare which is essentially a remake of Dactyl Nightmare, check it out for nostalgia's sake. Subscribed

13. Great 😉

14. Congratulations, you lived to see the day.

15. OMG love this shit

16. Awesome film! Thank you…

17. I must say Gary, That was an awesome documentary on VR !!! Enjoyed every minute. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

18. That was pretty good!

19. Wow I had forgotten all the early stuff, thanks Gary that was excellent.

20. The "funny" thing is that the tech itself existed for a long time already. Even back in the 90s there were VR HMDs, except that they were insanely expensive and had low resolutions and everything. You can rant about Palmer as much as you want, it was him who like so many here wondered "WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS?"..because for everyone with a brain it was clear that 2D tech/monitors cannot be the future, this is 70 year old technology. It was him finally doing something and bringing VR to the masses where no-one else had an interest, even if the potential was so obvious. And now, thanks to Palmer (how ironic!) you see everyone from Google to Microsoft to Sony to facebook working on VR like mad. If there had been a smart guy back then when early VR kits cost thousands and had jumped in MUCH, MUCH earlier to bring it into mainstream, the tech now would be a lot more advanced of course. And without him, rest assured no-one would give a darn still today.

21. Very good summary on VR history. Thank you and wish you all the best.

22. This video is excellent 🙂

23. The future is Htc Vive… Oculus is shit company.

24. You forgot to mention Carmack working on mobile VR in a partnership between Oculus and Samsung which gave birth to the Gear VR.

25. Excellent Job

26. Great documentary. It's almost frustrating for older gamers like myself to hear people complain about the state of VR now (short experiences…not good enough…etc). Having experienced games with simple graphics from the 80's and 90's, the current tech is jaw dropping to us 80s kids.

27. Fantastic!

28. Nice one, makes you think how just recently VR has really become something amazing.