Jaron’s World: Virtual Horizon

VR in the real world may soon surpass the famous glove from Minority Report.

By Jaron Lanier
May 11, 2007 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:45 AM

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Computers today barely connect with people. The human body evolved as a whole to sense and interact with the world, but computers sense us only at our fingertips. Even the fingertips aren’t allowed to do all they can; a computer that was designed to interact with us holistically would feel different from moment to moment in order to convey information. For more than two decades, I’ve been working on the grand project of virtual reality (VR) to bring the whole body into computing.

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