In the early 90s, it no doubt felt “a bit like looking up the Wright Brothers and taking their original prototype out for a spin,” as the book describes. The experience is immediately identifiable to anyone who has spent time in a modern VR headset.
I felt a growing vibration through the handlebar, and the 3D photo that filled much of my field of view came alive, animating into a yellow, scratchy, but still effective 3D motion picture.” “I was transported to the driver’s seat of a motorcycle in Brooklyn in the 1950s,” the author writes. Rheingold describes awe - even surprise - that the system was still operable almost 30 years after its introduction.
By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home.
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