
The Sensorama was a machine that is one of the earliest known examples of immersive, multi-sensory (now known as multimodal) technology. Morton Heilig, who today would be thought of as a `multimedia” specialist, in the 1950s saw theater as an activity that could encompass all the senses in an effective manner, thus drawing the viewer into the .....
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(from the article `virtual reality`) ...airthat he patented in 1962 as the Sensorama Simulator, designed to `stimulate the senses of an individual to simulate an actual experience ...
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