The First VR Headset - The Sword Of Damocles and The Virtual Boy

Virtual Reality has actually been around in one form or another much longer than you might think.

VR is often viewed as a more recent technological breakthrough with huge advances in consumer headsets like the original Oculus Rift, Valve Index, and HTC Vive. Not to mention more recent breakthroughs in standalone VR headsets (those that don’t need to be plugged into a PC to work) in the Meta Quest and Pico.

Despite the popularity and consumer availability of VR headsets skyrocketing so recently in the last decade, Virtual Reality technology has actually been around since the 1960s with the first VR headset… The Sword Of Damocles.