We’re about to be submerged in the hype surrounding Virtual Reality, but it’s important to remember that we’re witnessing the second coming of VR which began its life as a cultural artifact/technological prophecy in the 1980′s and early 1990′s. Fiction authors like William Gibson, films like Lawnmower Man and magazines like Mondo 2000, gave us the words and images we needed to understand what the new technology might be capable of and this charming 1991 BBC documentary reminds us of the aesthetics that defined VR’s debut.
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