The New Virtual Reality

Virtual reality was one of the hot technologies of the pre-Internet 1990s. Unfortunately, the hardware and software of the day could not deliver on the hype, and it vanished from the mainstream. However, with the prospect of at least 70,000 times the computing power and a whole generation acclimated to the virtual world, the time is ripe to reexamine this technology. Where does it stand? How is it evolving? What are its implications? We'll show you.

A little over 20 years ago, virtual reality was a hot "buz.....