From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Virtual Reality Outline

An Early Sci-Fi View of the Internet and Virtual Reality
(November 1909)

La Realite Virtuelle
(1938)

First Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display System
(1968)

Commercializing the Use of Computers as Simulators
(1968)

Early Interactive Computing and Virtual Reality
(1978 – 1979)

Visions of a Metaverse
(June 1992)

Virtual Medical Worlds
(November 1997)

Second Life
(2003)

Grand Text Auto
(May 2003)

Like Teleporting in Star Trek
(June 2006)

"Anshe Chung Becomes First Virtual World Millionaire"
(November 26, 2006)

The First Embassy of a Real Country in a Virtual World
(May 30, 2007)

Second Life is Used for Teaching Foreign Languages
(July 2007)

The First Healthcare Course Taught in Second Life
(September 2007)

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Second Life
(2008)

Game-Based Learning for Virtual Patients
(March 2008)

A Virtual Course on Teaching in Virtual Worlds
(August 4, 2008)

Employment in the Field of Simulation
(June 14, 2009)

Stanford University Libraries & Archives in Second Life
(July 31, 2009)

The Film Avatar and Our Vision of Virtual Reality
(December 10, 2009)

"Whatever Happened to Second Life?"
(January 4, 2010)