Virtual Reality Timeline

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Alliance Library System, in cooperation with LearningTimes, offers a one-day conference exploring the possibilities of using virtual worlds to teach literature and to promote its appreciation for people of all ages.

Aug 4, 2008

Alliance Library System, in cooperation with LearningTimes, offers a one-day conference exploring the possibilities of using virtual worlds to teach literature and to promote its appreciation for p...

Game-Based Learning for Virtual Patients

Mar 2008

Imperial College London Medical School develops Phase I - Game-based learning for Virtual Patients in Second Life . "The four-dimensional framework described by De Freitas and Martin (2006), plus t...

First Healthcare Course Taught in Second Life

Sep 2007

England's Coventry University develops a MSc course in clinical management that holds problem based learning groups for students in Second Life. The course trains students in managing healthcare fa...

Second Life used for teaching foreign languages

Jul 2007

According to an article in LeMonde.fr the virtual reality site, Second Life, is being used for teaching foreign languages.

The First Embassy of a Real Country in a Virtual World opened

May 30, 2007

In a real-world announcement, Carl Bildt, Foreign Minister of Sweden, opens the Second House of Sweden, an embassy in the virtual world of Second Life. A replica of the Swedish Embassy to the Unite...

Telepresence- like teleporting in Star Trek

Jun 2006

The Chairman of Cisco systems, John Chambers, compares telepresence to teleporting in Star Trek, and says it will be potentially a billion dollar market.

Second Life goes public

2003

Linden Lab makes publicly available the privately owned, partly subscription-based, virtual world, Second Life.

The Wachowski Brother's virtual reality based movie, 'The Matrix' grosses $750M worldwide

1999

Virtual Medical Worlds Internet Magazine initates publication.

Nov 1997

Virtual Medical Worlds, "a monthly Virtual Magazine on Telemedicine and High Performance Computing and Networking for readers interested in computer applications in medical environments," initiates...

Silicon Grpahics developes VRML 1.0, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language

1995

Divison (founded in 1989) goes public and 1st UK VR initiative set up

1993

Artifical Inteligence RB2 based Program, "Reality Net" created

1991

Further work on haptic perception modeling is performed

Jul 1, 1990

Further work on haptic perception modeling is undertaken at the Snake Pit, MIT Media Lab by Margaret Minsky

HTTL (Human Interface Technology Lab) creates virtual Seattle; 1st Cyberspace Conference held

1990

Autodesk and VPL (DataGlove, head tracker) begin commercial development of VR; RB2 demonstrated at TEXPO

1989

'Virtual Reality Day', June 7th, 1989. VPL demonstrate their RB2 ('reality built for two') system at TEXPO in San Francisco Civic Auditorium; Autodesk's "Weird Science" cyberspace demo at Anaheim.