intro: three starting points
Camillo Theatre of Memory
Panorama’s and Diorama’s
Aby Warburg’s Denkraum
![Barker's panorama in London (1793).](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Cross-section-of-the-rotund_0-494x338.jpg)
history of virtual reality
Morton Heilig, Sensorama
Ivan Sutherland, Sword of Damocles and ‘Ultimate Display’
Myron Krueger’s Videoplace
The CAVE
Scott Fisher and NASA
Second Life
![Morton Heilig's "Sensorama".](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/201-385x494.jpg)
![Myron Krueger's "Videoplace".](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2101.jpg)
![Dan Sandin in the CAVE II at EVL as seen in 2017.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/230-494x328.jpg)
![Scott Fisher in his virtual reality at NASA.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/249.jpg)
some examples of interactive virtual art projects
Monika Fleischmann / Wolfgang Strauss / Art+Com
Berlin Cyber City
Home of the Brain
![An image from "Home of the Brain" by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/305.jpg)
Jeffrey Shaw
Legible City
![View of Shaw's "Legible City".](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/299-494x370.jpg)
Maurice Benayoun
World Skin
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
Interactive Plant Growing
A-Volve
Charlotte Davies
Osmosis
![A view inside "Osmosis" by Charlotte Davies.](http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/3301-494x385.jpg)