Virtual Reality and the Pioneers of Cyberspace
In the early 1990s, experimenters and entrepreneurs were immersing lucky test-users in fantastic (and sometimes nauseating) artificial worlds. The equipment was funkier, the resolution was spottier, and the money wasn’t nearly as big  —  but writers and pundits at that time were expounding on the same themes that captivate us about virtual reality in 2015. No document in that period captured the virtual zeitgeist as well as John Perry Barlow’s 1990 “Being in Nothingness.”

April 30, 2015 at 04:12PM
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