Virtual reality has been a vision of games developers since the very inception of games development, even in 1962 a man by the name Morton Heilig created the first VR machine. Heiligs device was a large machine that could fit four people at a time inside, the machine had full 3D video and audio as well as vibrations and various smells and atmospheric effects.
Technology has now come a long way from Heiligs stereoscopic 3D screen in 1962, games developers are now able to develop games for virtual reality devices that are semi mobile and far more immersive, Oculus and Vive are the leading producers of virtual reality products such as the recent release of the Oculus quest 2 which is a lightweight headset with two controllers that sense movement so that the player can control the player and objects within the game.
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- virtualspeech.com. (n.d.). History of VR - Timeline of Events and Tech Development. [online] Available at: https://virtualspeech.com/blog/history-of-vr#:~:text=Cinematographer%20Morton%20Heilig%20created%20Sensorama [Accessed 18 Oct. 2020].
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