Renato Bazan: The first experiment in virtual reality was a bicycle from the 1950s.
A VR researcher explains that this technology is older than we think; "VR emerged from an experiment that featured a bicycle and various images of a pedestrian bridge in Manhattan, in the United States, giving the impression that you were inside the environment," he said on Digiclub, on TV 247; watch.
By Pedro Zambarda, editor of DigiClub.
A researcher of virtual reality and technology, journalist Renato Bazan addressed the subject during his course at Faculdade Cásper Líbero in 2010. In an interview with DigiClub do Brasil 247, he explained the origins of this technological resource and how it generated Brazilian companies such as Beenoculus and others.
"VR emerged from an experiment that featured a bicycle and various images of a pedestrian bridge in Manhattan, in the United States, giving the impression that you were inside the environment," the researcher said in our interview program. At the time, personal computers did not yet exist, and much of digital and internet technology was still in its infancy.
Below is an excerpt from the interview where he explains how this technology came about. It serves to explain it both to those familiar with it and to those who are simply curious.
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