Morton Heilig
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Morton Heilig was a thought-leader in Virtual Reality (VR). He applied his cinematographer experience with the help of his partner developed the Sensorama in 1960.[1]
It was big, bulky, and shaped like a 1980-ish arcade game. The Sensorama was quite impressive for 1960 technology. The game gave the player the experience of riding a motorcycle on the streets of Brooklyn. The player felt the wind on their face, the vibration of the motorcycle seat, a 3D view, and even smells of the city.
Morton wanted to create “cinema of the future.” [2] The Sensorama was doomed, however, from the high costs of the filmmaking. He was not able to find the amount of funds necessary to create new 3-D films “obtained with three 35 mm cameras mounted on the cameraman.”[3]
