![]() the cost of LCD screens had declined (thanks mainly to Hitachi's In Plane Switching design and Samsung's Multi-domain design) so that in 2007 for the first time LCD TV sets surpassed CRT TV sets in worldwide sales 2. Virtual Reality had failed in the 1990s, but between 19 three factors changed the conditions for adoption: 1. Introduced see-through wearable displays. The vanguard in this field was perhaps Lumus, founded in 2000 in Israel by Yaakov Amitai, that in 2012 ![]() Insert photo of Google Glass prototypes (2011-12) Insert photo of Priest-Dorman at the Computer History Museum Google Glass failed just like its closest competitor, Atheer, founded in 2011 in Mountain View by Lebanese-born entrepreneur Soulaiman Itani and Allen Yang, whose glasses offered a wider 65-degree field of view (as opposed to Google Glass' 12 degrees) but required a physical cable to an Android smartphone. Google Glass, which was basically a wearable smartphone, failed because it was socially disruptive, eventually killed by social stigma.Īutodesk adapted the concept of the Google Glass to the CAD market and created Autodesk Virtual Reality (AVR) Glass, introduced in 2014. ![]() Thad Starner, one of the pioneers of wearable computing, was the mastermind behind Glass, a project largely implemented by Greg Priest-Dorman at Georgia Tech. Offered by Internet-enabled consumer electronics. In 2013 Google Glass, manufactured by Foxconn, captured the headlines: it coupled that kind of display with a "wearable" computer and provided the kind of functionalities The idea of the head-mounted display harkened back to the early days of virtual reality. ![]() The Selfies (2011-16) click here for the other sections of this chapter Virtual and Augmented Reality ![]()
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