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We begin by examining the historical roots of concepts that led to the development of VR and VE. This history includes the development of realism in visual arts, the history of photography and moving pictures, as well as the development of modern computers and the evolution of human–computer interaction which led to the development of VR as an idea and as a viable technology.
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Stanković, S. (2024). Lecture 2—History of VR and Current Applications. In: Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments in 10 Lectures. Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49468-0_2
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