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Beware the funny hair… its a tech cult giveaway

Beware the funny hair… its a tech cult giveaway

And All That Hype, VR Publications, Where Are They Now?

Matt Novak, in Smithsonian’s Paleofuture blog, draws some interesting contrasts between Jaron Lanier’s 1991 Omni Magazine interview and his current book: “You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto.” While the Omni article portrays Lanier as...
Yea, though he has walked through the Valley of Silicon, he fears no evil. Jaron Lanier’s rebound…

Yea, though he has walked through the Valley of Silicon, he fears no evil. Jaron Lanier’s rebound…

And All That Hype, Game Systems, Head Mounted Displays, VR Companies

“Inside Jaron Lanier is a precocious eight-year-old who got together with some friends and built a spaceship,” wrote Howard Rheingold in his 1991 book, Virtual Reality, the definitive history of VR to date. “Now he wants us all to take a ride in...
Jaron Lanier Explains Why There’s Still Not A VR Bubble

Jaron Lanier Explains Why There’s Still Not A VR Bubble

Game Systems, Head Mounted Displays, VR Companies

Jaron walks us through all eleven reasons, from Gates Envy to Movie Projectors. Strangely enough I agree! The Top Eleven Reasons VR Has Not Yet Become...

What’s The Deal With This Site?

Who thought we’d be doing archeology on Virtual Reality? It’s been almost 25 years (maybe more…) since VR hit the media and sparked the imagination of millions. So much promised, but often not delivered. To call it a “fad” or a “craze” is far too simple. For those of us who were there, VR was a giant wave that swept over us in the late 80’s and early 90’s, and left quite a bit of wreckage behind as the tide receded.

For a while there VR’s promise and growth went hand in hand with the explosion of interest and usage of the internet. The dot.com bubble and subsequent burst notwithstanding, the internet became ubiquitous, but immersive VR did not. Strangely, memories of the VR bubble on the web are fragmentary with great swaths of empty spaces.  more...

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