User:Tourista360

I have been working at Sandia Labs, JPL and the U.S. Government since the early 1980's, where we invented virtual reality in 1984. Our early works in simulating virtual tour landscapes were nothing more fancier than a series of stick-like wireframes which was used in military aircraft flight training simulators. In 1988, we began discussions with outside companies and through technology transfer, this eventually led to Apple's release of QuickTime Virtual Reality or QTVR in 1994.

Since then, many other spin-offs of virtual reality or "virtual tours" have evolved. My involvement as a consultant to the military, government and private industries were pretty exciting during the 1990's through 2002. I am semi-retired now and I look forward to adding my contribution to Wikipedia to document the journey of how virtual reality began, what it is today, and my vision of what this will evolve into tomorrow.