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Richard Wagner-1849
Richard Wagner was a German opera composer who believed the future of art was fused arts. He created a theater in Bayreuth where he applied his ideas and foreshadowed virtual reality with surround sound, a darkened house and a Greek amphitheater seating which focused attention. -
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Richard Wagner- 1849
Richard Wagner was a German opera composer who believed the future of art was fused arts. He created a theater in Bayreuth where he applied his ideas and foreshadowed virtual reality with surround sound, a darkened house and a Greek amphitheater seating which focused attention. -
László Moholy-Nagy-1924
László Moholy-Nagy's reinterpretation of Richard Wagner's total theater was the theater of totality. His idea was to synthesize the main components of the theater: space, composition, motion, sound, movement, and light, into an abstract form of artistic expression. -
Robert Wilson-1976
Robert created a visual theater that included non narrative drama, scenic spectacle, music, sound, silence and dance. This resulted in a non traditional theater, it allowed viewers to create their own story and be more free minded rather than laying a story straight out. -
Michael Naimark-1979
Micheal joined a project of the Aspen movie map, a navigable tour, which was his first surrogate travel exploration. After he went on to design many more movie maps of places like Banff, Canada and the Paris Metro. -
Tim Berner-1989
In 1990, Tim created the first server software and web browser. In 1991, he released it to the public. Merges documents, information, programs in a hypermedia environment. -
Daniel Sandin-1992
Daniel created the CAVE which is a room where viewers find themselves surrounded by walls with synchronized images projected across them. This idea was to replicate stepping onto a virtual reality stage. -
Jenny Holzer-1993
At the first exhibition to investigate virtual reality, 2 of Holzer’s virtual reality worlds were featured. One a cavernous world with spirits floating around the player, another a response to violence against women in the Bosnian war. This one included a dessert with buildings, villages, and voices.
