The Sword of Damocles (virtual reality)
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The Sword of Damocles (virtual reality)
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The Sword of Damocles is widely misattributed as the name of the first AR display prototype. According to Ivan Sutherland, this was merely a joke name for the mechanical system that supported and tracked the actual HMD below it. It happened to look like a giant overhead cross, hence the joke. Ivan Sutherland's 1968 ground-breaking AR prototype was actually called "the head-mounted display", which is perhaps the first recorded use of the term "HMD", and he preferred "Stereoscopic-Television Appar
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First augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD) system
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Damocles_(virtual_reality)
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2024-04-01T18:53:13Z
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