Brief History of Augmented Reality

Cinematagrapher Morton Heilig Creates and Patents "Sensorama"

Period: Jan 1, 1957 to Jan 10, 1961

History of Augmented RealityThe "Sensorama" was a simulator with visuals, sound, virbation and smell.
According to to Pocket-Lint.com's Dan Sung: "It was designed as a cinematic experience to take in all your senses and, shaped, rather like arcade machine from the 80s, it blew wind at you, vibrated the seat you sat on, played sounds to your eyes and projected a form of a stereoscopic 3D environment to the front and sides of your head."

Ivan Sutherland Invents Head-Mounted Display

Period: Jan 1, 1966 to Mar 5, 1970

(Specific Dates at not exact)

Ivan Sutherland invents the head-mounted display

Period: Mar 5, 1966 to Mar 6, 1966

According to Dan Sung: "In 1966 Professor Ivan Sutherland of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University invented the first model of one of the most important devices used in both AR and VR today - the head-mounted display or HMD."

Tom Caudell coins the term "Augmented Reality"

Jun 15, 1990

Caudell comes up with the term "Augmented Reality." (in 1990- date is not exact due to TimeToat's requirement of spcific date)

L.B. Rosenberg creates "Virtual Fixtures"

Jun 5, 1992

Rosenberg and others create one of the first functioning AR systems at the US Air Force Research Labortatory

ARToolKit released by Hirokazu Kato

Mar 5, 1999

Hirokazu Kato of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology

First AR video gameARQuake project begun

Mar 5, 2000

ARQuake project begun

Wikitude AR app released on the G1

Oct 19, 2008

2008 brought the first AR apps to smartphones

Google releases protoype Google Glass Video

Feb 20, 2013