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1985 NASA Ames Research Center, Aerospace Human Factors Division (Jim Humphries, Mike McGreevy)

NASA Ames Virtual Reality Headset (1985)

The handmade research prototype that made head position the spatial input — the origin of head-tracked immersive displays

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NASA Ames Virtual Reality Headset (1985) archival photograph

Overview

Deep dive

Media

NASA Ames virtual reality headset prototype at the Smithsonian
Handmade NASA Ames VR headset prototype, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 by Sanjay Acharya.
NASA Ames virtual reality headset prototype, close view
NASA Ames VR headset prototype (close view). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 by Joe Loong.

Sources

  1. Virtual Reality Headset Prototype (photograph, Wikimedia Commons)
  2. Prototype VR headset made by NASA (photograph, Wikimedia Commons)
  3. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum — virtual reality headset display