#ivansutherland

O legado duradouro do Sketchpad é testemunho não apenas da genialidade de seu criador, mas também da importância de suas contribuições para a evolução contínua da informática.

Although virtual reality (VR) may seem a complex and advanced technology in this day and age, its roots can be traced back to the 1720s where the idea could change how people interacted with computers forever. Sadly, its origins are not quite clear, however, one of the earliest who envisioned the idea was English painter Robert Barker (Matthew & Harrison, 2004), who had an idea of panoramic murals shown in the inside of a cylindrical surface, with a person standing inside. The concept of virtual reality was not introduced before the 1950s, but can be seen as a concept fronted by several pioneers: Myron Krueger, Jaron Lanier, Morton Heilig, Ivan Sutherland and electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart, who by 1967, birthed the first interactive computer. This was a significant breakthrough as computers at that time were only used as “giant calculators”. Imagine how life back then with computers without their keyboards and mouse would have been like. But of course for us it is no big deal due to the development of touch screens.