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artist-sound designer Nandor Nevi
Film director Grady Sain
artist Tony Gold director of "Duelin' Firemen"
Treanor Brothers Animation Todd and Paul
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MediaUnderground Paul Remo the Pro
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Indie film Raging Hormones
Special Effects studio "Boss Films"
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Discreet Flame computer and
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by the band Filter
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Discreet Smoke
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Brandy's video for 1998's platinum
selling hit "The Boy Is Mine" with Monica.
Brandy was nominated for 2 MTV Video Music Awards with Monica for Best R&B Video.
Post Logic Studios Hollywood and
Computer Discreet Inferno
BBC Films
gives the Warner Brothers DVD restoration
"Rebel Without A Cause" a four star review
Warners DVD restoration,
"My Fair Lady"Audio Video Revolution
calls this restoration, "a gorgeous DVD, crystal clear in both image and sound"."Casablanca" the second-best American film ever made RottenTomatoes.com
Warner Brothers DVD release of
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The bigest Dr. against cholestrol druges is Dr. Whitaker. http://www.DrWhitaker.com his web site is more of a store than anything else. He wants you to take a subscription to his news letter and for that he will send you some books that he published on all kinds of healthly living subjects.
I did it and the books were most useful.
Also there is Dr. Robert Jay Rowen. http://www.secondopinionnewsletter.com
Again you must join, I did. However the mainstream doctors don't like what they have to say.

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Dean Lyon's Computer Graphic's History
As told to me in Hollywood, by Dean himself.

 

1975

Altair 8800 computer
Winged edge polyhedra representation
Bill Gates starts Microsoft
JPL Graphics Lab developed
Anima animation system developed at CGRG at Ohio State

1976

Jim Blinn develops reflectance and environment mapping
Ukrainian Pysanka Egg erected in Vegraville, Canada by Ron Resch to commemorate the RCMP
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple computer.

1977

Apple Computer incorporated
Apple II released
Computer Graphics World begins publication
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences introduces Visual Effects category for Oscars
Larry Cuba produces Death Star simulation for Star Wars using Grass at UICC developed by Tom DeFanti at Ohio State

1978

Leroy Nieman uses Ampex paint system to draw football players in Super Bowl XII
James Blinn produces the first of a series of animations titled The Mechanical Universe
Bump mapping introduced

1979

National Computer Graphics Association organized
IBM 3279 color terminal
Atari 8-bit computers introduced
Disney produces The Black Hole using CGI for the opening
Chris Carter joins the Army and goes to Stuttgart, Germany

1980

Apollo Computer founded
Turner Whitted of Bell Labs publishes ray tracing paper
First NCGA conference - Arlington, Virginia - Steven Levine, President
IBM licenses DOS from Microsoft
Aurora Systems founded by Richard Shoup
Disney uses computer graphics for the movie Tron
MIT Media Lab founded by Nicholas Negroponte
Hanna-Barbera, largest producer of animation in the U.S.,begins implementation of computer automation of animation process
Quantel introduces Paintbox
Chris Carter produces his first multi-track audio recordings using two cassette decks and a 4-track TEAC reel to reel.

1981

Sony Betacam
Tom DeFanti expands GRASS to Bally Z-50 machine
IBM introduces the first IBM PC
Penguin Software (now Polarware) introduces the Complete Graphics System
Looker includes the virtual human character Cindy

1982

The Last Starfighter
Skeleton Animation System developed at CGRG at Ohio State
ACM begins publication of TOG
Tom Brighham develops morphing
Adobe founded by John Warnock
Atari develops the data glove.
AutoDesk founded; AutoCAD released

1983

ILM computer graphics division develops "Genesis effect" for Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Autodesk introduces first PC-based CAD software

1984

Robert Able & Associates produces the 1st computer generated 30 second commercial used for Super Bowl
Wavefront Technologies is the first commercially available 3D software package
14.5 minute computer generated IMAX film shown at SIGGRAPH 84
Universal Studios opens CG department
First Macintosh computer is sold; introduced with Clio award winning commercial 1984 during Super Bowl
Lucasfilms introduces motion blur effects
Chris Carter attends Illustrator 88 classes at Lake Co. College

1985

Pixar Image Computer goes to market

1986

Young Sherlock Holmes stained glass knight
2010 The Movie
The Great Mouse Detective was the first animated film to be aided by CG.
Pixar purchased from Lucasfilm by Steve Jobs
Microsoft goes public
Apple IIgs introduced
Luxo Jr. nominated for Oscar

1987

GIF format
Willow popularizes morphing
VGA invented by IBM

1988

PICT format
Apple sues Microsoft for copyright infringement for GUI
U.S. Patent awarded to Pixar for RenderMan
Who Framed Roger Rabbit mixes live action and animation
Disney and Pixar develop CAPS
PIXAR wins Academy award for Tin Toy

1989

PIXAR starts marketing RenderMan

1990

Microsoft ships Windows 3.0
U.S. Patent awarded to Pixar for point sampling
3D Studio

1991

World Wide Web
Disney and PIXAR agree to create 3 films, including the first computer animated full-length film Toy Story
ILM produces Terminator 2
JPEG/MPEG

1992

Disney and Pixar get Academy Technical Achievement Award for CAPS production system
QuickTime introduced
University of Illinois debuts CAVE virtual reality technology at SIGGRAPH 92
Lawnmower Man
VIFX uses flock animation with Prism software to create large groups of animals

1993

disk array and compression codecs allow for nonlinear editing and full motion video
Jurassic Park
Babylon 5 uses Amiga and Macintosh generated CGI
Myst released

1994

SGI and Nintendo team up for Nintendo 64 product
Microsoft acquires Softimage - announces Windows 95
Doom hits game market
Reboot (CG cartoon) uses 3D characters
Facetracker used by SimmGraphics to animate facial expressions for Super Mario

1995

Toy Story
DreamWorks SKG founded
Pixar goes public with 6.9M share offering
Sony Playstation introduced

1996

Quake hits game market
Windows 95 ships

1997

DVD technology unveiled
Jim Kajiya of Cal Tech gets Academy Award for development and application of CGI hair and fur

1998

Titanic becomes the largest grossing motion picture in US history
MPEG-4 standard announced
Geri's Game - awarded the Academy Award for Animated Short
Pixar awarded a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for the development of software that produces images used in motion pictures from 3D computer descriptions of shape and appearance

1999

Star wars Episode One
Toy Story 2 produced by Pixar
Fantasia 2000 produced by Disney
Disney's DreamQuest and Feature Animation join to form The Secret Lab

2000

Playstation 2
Microsoft X-Box prototype shown at SIGGRAPH 2000
Dinosaur produced by Disney

2001

Windows XP
movies - Final Fantasy , Monsters Inc, Harry Potter, A.I., Lord of the Rings, Shrek, Jurassic Park III
Microsoft xBox and Nintendo Gamecube released

 

Dean Lyon's History of Computing and VRE Timeline
As told to me by Dean in a bar in Las Vegas

1450 Gutenburg press

1687 Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton

1777 Charles Earl Stanhope invented the first logic machine.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/StnhpC.html

1800 J. M. Jacquard used punched cards to control a weaving loom.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111100a.htm

1804 Jacquard loom

1811 Luddites riot

1821 Michael Faraday discovered the principle of the electric motor.
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Faraday.html

http://www.phy.hr/~dpaar/fizicari/xfaraday.html
http://physics.hallym.ac.kr/reference/physicist/Faraday.html
http://www.iee.org.uk/TheIEE/Research/Archives/faraday1.cfm

1823 Charles Babbage developed the Difference Engine.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/exhibits/cb.html
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/exhibits/cb.html

1824 Peter Roget described the persistence of vision.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/roget_peter_mark.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/your_history/family/victorian_photo1.sht

1826 Photography (Niepce)

1831 Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a phenakitstoscope

1832 Charles Wheatstone invented the stereoscope.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/collect/1wh20-0.html


1833 Charles Babbage proposed the Analytical Engine.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/exhibits/cb.html

1834 Horner developed the zoetrope from Plateau's phenakistoscope.

1842 FAX (Alexander Bain)

1843 Morse's telegraph installed between Philadelphia and Washington

1854 George Boole published his method for solving problems in logic.
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/boole.html


1860 Lord Kelvin used the ball and disk integrator for analog computing.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thomson.html


1864 Maxwell electromagnetic wave theory becomes basis for radio wave propogation

1872 Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic compilation of animals in motion

1873 James Clerk Maxwell published his "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism".
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Maxwell.html


1883 Thomas Edison discovered the thermionic effect.
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents.htm


1884 Nipkow (Germany) devises scanner for scanning and transmitting images

1885 CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)

1887 Edison patents motion picture camera

1888 Edison and Dickson record motion picture photos on a wax cylinder

1889 George Eastman began the manufacture of photographic film strips using a nitro-cellulose base.

1888 Berliner invents phonograph

1889 Thomas Edison announced his kinetoscope which projected a 50ft length of film in approximately 13 seconds.

1888 Oberlin Smith introduces basics of magnetic recording

1888 Heinrich Hertz discovered radio waves.
http://www.frannetcanada.com/fecha/hertz.htm

1889 Lon Bolle built a direct multiplication machine.

1890 Herman Hollerith designed an electric tabulating system for the USA census.
http://www.cis.southalabama.edu/faculty/daigle/project1/90herm.htm


1891 Dickson uses Edison's kinetograph to record motion pictures

1896 Herman Hollerith formed the Tabulating Machine Company today's IBM.

1905 Fleming electron tube

1905 Einstein's theory of relativity

1910 Bertrand Russell and Albert North Whitehead published "Principia Mathematica".
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Russell.html


1912 de Forest develops Audion vacuum tube amplifier

1923 Zworykin develops Iconoscope at Westinghouse

1924 John Logie Baird produced television objects in outline.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml


1926 John Logie Baird demonstrated the television of moving objects.

1926 1st teleconference - between Washington and New York

1927 Philo Farnsworth invents fully electronic TV (First all electronic TV is made by RCA in 1932)

1927 Motion picture film standardized at 24 fps

1929 BBC begins broadcasting

1931 1st stereo recordings

1936 Alan Turing showed that certain algorithms could not be solved.
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/


1936 Konrad Zuse built a relay calculator.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.html
http://www.zib.de/zuse/cgi/photoChanger.cgi


1936 the Magnetophone is 1st true magnetic tape recorder

1937 Claude Shannon described an "Electric Adder to Base Two" in his master's thesis.
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/shannon.htm


1937 George Stibitz built an electric adder to the base two at Bell Labs.
http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.invent.org/hall%5Fof%5Ffame/1%5F1%5F6%5Fdetail.asp%3FvInventorID=140


1937 Howard Aiken proposed the need for a new kind of computing machine.
http://www.transy.edu/homepages/miller/web706/pf27p5.htm


1938 Valensi proposes color TV

1938 Thomas Watson (President of IBM) implemented Aiken's idea for a new type of computing machine at Harvard University.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/w/watson-t1j11.asp


1940 Link Aviation developed the first flight trainers.
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/special/findingaids/linkcoll_m5.html



1941 First U.S. regular TV broadcast

1941 1st TV commercial (for Bulova watches)

1943 The U.S. Army began planning the ENIAC computer.
http://www.maxmon.com/1943bad.htm


1943 British Post Office engineers operated their Colussus computer to decode Germany's Enigma codes.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/johnclark/comput.htm

1944 The Harvard Computation Laboratory completed their automatic, general-purpose, digital computer.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa052198.htm

1944 Gordon Brown at M.I.T. was asked to build a simulator for multi-engined aircraft.
http://web.mit.edu/mboleary/www/searlsgilbert/d0001/g0000083.html

1945 Konrad Zuse developed a simple programming language 'plan calculus'.
http://www.epemag.com/zuse/


1945 John von Neumann began work on a fully automatic, digital, all-purpose computing machine.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html


1946 J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly designed ENIAC at the Moore School.

1946 M.I.T's Project Whirlwind was used for real-time air traffic control and aircraft simulation.
http://www3.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/02/1951.idg/


1946 George Stibitz completed the first Model V relay calculator.
http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bredshaw/stibitz.htm


1947 Adele Goldstine and John von Neumann developed flow diagrams for describing programs.
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~williams/509pdffiles/Women_of_ENIAC.pdf

1947 J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly's company built UNIVAC the first computer designed for commercial use.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa060298.htm
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/mauchly.htm



1948 Adele Goldstine and John von Neumann developed a program to interpret other programs.
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html#Adele%20Goldstine

1948 William Shockley et al. invented the transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
http://www.aphs.nsw.edu.au/student_work/electronics9/shockley/shockley.htm


1948 F. C. Williams used CRTs as memory delay lines and created patterns of dots.

1948 cable TV is installed

1949 Maurice Wilkes built the EDSAC computer at Cambridge University.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Wilkes.html


1949 Williams tube (CRT storage tube)

1949 F. C. Williams and T. Kilburn built the MADM computer at Manchester University.
http://www4.wittenberg.edu/academics/mathcomp/bjsdir/madmmk1.shtml
http://www.computer50.org/mark1/williams.html

1950 Cybernetics and Society - Norbert Weiner (MIT)

1950 Ben Laposky uses oscilloscope to display waveforms which were photographed as artwork

1950 The Whirlwind computer at M.I.T. used a CRT for output.
http://www.computer.org/history/development/1951.htm?SMSESSION=NO


1951 The ACE project
http://www4.wittenberg.edu/academics/mathcomp/bjsdir/madmmk1.shtml

1951 Graphics display on vectorscope on Whirlwind computer

1953 NTSC broadcast code

1954 FCC authorizes color TV broadcast

1955 SAGE system at Lincoln Lab uses first light pen (Bert Sutherland)

1955 John von Neumann described 'self-reproducing automata'.http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Von_Neumann.html


1956 Morton Heilig invented the Sensorama. http://atlas.ucpel.tche.br/~tst/sensorama.html


1956 US Patent 3,059,519 - inventor: Stanton, CRT-based binocular "headgear".
http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu/~symanzik/papers/1999_ipt.pdf

1956 Lawrence Livermore National Labs connects graphics display to IBM 704; use film recorder for color images

1956 Ampex demonstrates the Ampex VR2000 videotape recorder (2" tape)

1957 M.L. Heilig patented a pair of head-mounted goggles fitted with two colour TV units.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/publications/mmSystems.pdf

1957 1st image-processed photo at National Bureau of Standards

1957 Digital Equipment Corporation founded

1958 The first monolithic integrated circuit was demonstrated.
http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/KyotoPrizes/contents_e/laureates/citation/cit09_at.html
http://www.kilby.org/pr_roger.html
http://www.dotpoint.com/xnumber/kilby.htm

1958 Numerical controlled digital drafting machines - MIT

1958 TX-1 computer at MIT uses graphics console

1958 CalComp 565 drum plotter

1958 John Whitney Sr. uses analog computer to make art

1959 First film recorder - General Dynamics Stromberg Carlson 4020

1960 The Boeing Corporation coined the term 'computer graphics'.
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/history.html

1960 William Fetter of Boeing coins the term "computer graphics" for his human factors cockpit drawings

1960 John Whitney Sr. founds Motion Graphics, Inc.

1960 DEC PDP-1 introduced

1961 Integrated circuits were used in commercial computers.
http://www.tml.hut.fi/Studies/Tik-111.080/2000/papers/seppo/paper.pdf

1961 John Whitney Sr., creates the intro to Alfred Hitchock's Vertigo using analog computer graphics devices

1961 Spacewars, 1st video game, developed by Steve Russell at MIT for the PDP-1

1962 W. Uttal, assigned to IBM, patented a glove for teaching touch typing.

1963 Ivan Sutherland submitted his doctoral thesis "SKETCHPAD: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System".
http://www.sun.com/960710/feature3/sketchpad.html



1963 1st computer art competition, sponsored by Computers and Automation

1963 Mouse invented by Doug Englebart of SRI

1963 Coons' patches

1963 1st (?) computer generated film by Edward Zajac (Bell Labs)

1963 BEFLIX developed at Bell Labs by Ken Knowlton

1963 Charles Csuri makes his first computer generated artwork

1963 DAC-1, first commercial CAD system, developed in 1959 by IBM for General Motors is shown at JCC

1963 Lockheed Georgia starts graphics activity

1963 Michael Noll (Bell Labs) starts his Gaussian Quadratic series of artwork

1963 Roberts hidden line algorithm (MIT)

1964 Project MAC (MIT)

1964 IBM 2250 console introduced with IBM 360 computer

1964 Poem Field by Stan Vanderbeek and Ken Knowlton

1964 Itek Digigraphic Program (later Control Data graphics system)

1964 RAND tablet input device (also called Grafacon)

1964 compact cassette tape (Phillips)

1964 Electronic character generator

1965 Ivan Sutherland published "The Ultimate Display".
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/sutherland.html
http://www.cce.ufsc.br/~rohleder/Model/historia/sld005.htm

1965 1st computer art exhibition, at Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart

1965 1st U.S. computer art exhibition, at Howard Wise Gallery in New York

1965 Adage founded

1965 Bresenham Algorithm for plotting lines

1965 BBN Teleputer uses Tektronix CRT

1966 Tom Furness began work on display systems for pilots.

1966 Odyssey, home video game developed by Ralph Baer of Sanders Assoc, is 1st consumer CG product

1966 Group 1 FAX machines (using CCITT compression)

1966 Lincoln Wand developed

1966 Plasma Panel introduced

1966 Studies in Perception I by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon (Bell Labs)

1966 MAGI founded by Phil Mittleman

1966 Loutrel hidden line algorithm

1967 Fred Brooks et al. developed the force feedback GROPE system at UNC at Chapel Hill.

1967 Appel hidden line algorithm

1967 Sine Curve Man and Hummingbird created by Chuck Csuri

1967 Adage real time 3D line drawing system

1967 GE introduces first full color real time interactive flight simulator for NASA - Rod Rougelet

1967 Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) started in New York by artists Rauschenberg and Kluver

1967 MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies founded by Gyorgy Kepes

1967 1/2 inch open reel video tape recorder

1968 Ivan Sutherland published "A Head-Mounted Three Dimensional Display".
http://www.sun.com/960710/feature3/ivan-profile.html
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html
http://www.uni-weimar.de/architektur/InfAR/lehre/Course01/i_suth.html
http://www.sun.com/960710/feature3/ivan-publish.html

1968 DEC 338 intelligent graphics terminal

1968 Tektronix 4010

1968 University of Utah recruits Dave Evans to form a CG department in computer science

1968 Warnock algorithm

1968 Watkins algorithm

1968 Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts exhibition at London Institute of Contemporary Arts

1968 Csuri's Hummingbird purchased by Museum of Modern Art for permanent collection

1968 Permutations - John Whitney, Sr.

1968 Sutherland Head Mounted Display (Sword of Damocles), developed in 1966, shown (AFIPS Conference)

1968 Evans & Sutherland, Calma, Houston Instrument, Imlac founded

1968 LDS-1 from E&S introduces line clipping

1969 SCANIMATE commercialized - Lee Harrison

1969 Genesys anaimation system - Ron Baecker

1969 Computer Image Corporation founded

1969 Bell Labs builds first framebuffer (3 bits)

1969 1st use of CGI for commercials - MAGI for IBM

1969 Graphical User Interface (GUI) developed by Xerox (Alan Kay)

1969 SIGGRAPH formed (began as special interest committee in 1967 by Sam Matsa and Andy vanDam)

1969 ComputerVision, Applicon, Vector General founded

1969 ARPANET is born

1970 Sonic Pen 3-D input device

1971 Redifon Ltd. (UK) began manufacturing flight simulators with computer graphics displays.
http://home.clara.net/robmorton/tli/chap01/emp.htm#Redifon

1971 Henri Gouraud submitted his doctoral thesis "Computer Display of Curved Surfaces".
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/history/#gouraud-ref
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/5323/1970.htm
http://www.univ-reims.fr/Labos/LERI/Afig99/gouraud1.html

1971 Gouraud shading

1971 Ramtek founded

1971 MCS (Manufacturing and Consulting Services) founded by Patrick Hanratty, consedered the "father" of mechanical CAD/CAM

1971 Altair 8800 computer

1971 Robert Abel and Associates founded

1972 MAGI Synthevision started (Bo Gehring)

1972 CGRG founded at Ohio State

1972 Emmy awarded to Lee Harrison for SCANIMATE

1972 Alto computer introduced by Xerox PARC (Alan Kay)

1972 Megatek founded

1972 Utah hand (Catmull) and face (Parke) animations produced

1972 Computer Graphics and Image Processing journal begins publication

1972 8-bit frame buffer developed by Dick Shoup at Xerox PARC

1972 Sandin Image Processor - Dan Sandin, Univ. Illinois-Chicago Circle

1972 Atari formed (Nolan Bushnell)

1972 Newell, Newell and Sancha visible surface algorithm

1972 video game Pong developed for Atari

1972 Graphics Symbiosis System (GRASS) developed at Ohio State by Tom DeFanti

1973 Bui-Tuong Phong submitted his doctoral thesis "Illumination for Computer Generated Images".
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/history/#phong-ref
http://www.uiah.fi/~spo/glos_shader.html
http://pcmp.caltech.edu/anaprose/dick/Other/Phong/Phong_TR-43.pdf

1973 E&S begins marketing first commercial frame buffer

1973 Ethernet - Bob Metcalf (Harvard)

1973 Westworld - 1st film to use CGI - graphics produced at III

1973 Circle Graphics Habitat founded at Univ. Illinois Chicago (Tom DeFanti & Dan Sandin)

1973 first SIGGRAPH conference (Boulder)

1973 3/4 inch portapack replaces 16mm film for news gathering

1973 Richard Shoup develops PARC raster display

1973 Rich Riesenfeld (Syracuse) introduces b-splines

1973 Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics (Newman and Sproull) first comprehensive graphics textbook is published

1974 Motion Pictures Product Group formed at III by John Whitney, Jr. and Gary Demos

1974 Alex Schure opens CGL at NYIT, with Ed Catmull as Director

1974 SuperPaint developed by Dick Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith

1974 TCP protocol (Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn)

1974 z-buffer developed by Ed Catmull (Univ of Utah)

1974 Hunger produced by Peter Foldes at National Research Council of Canada; wins Cannes Film Festival Prix de Jury award for animation

1975 Sony Betamax recorder

1975 fractals - Benoit Mandelbrot (IBM)

1975 Catmull curved surface rendering algorithm

1975 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple computer.

1975 Bill Gates starts Microsoft

1975 Martin Newell (Utah) develops CGI teapot (physical teapot now in the Computer Museum in Boston)

1975 JPL Graphics Lab developed (Bob Holzman)

1975 Anima animation system developed at CGRG at Ohio State (Csuri)

1976 P. J. Kilpatrick published his doctoral thesis "The Use of a Kinematic Supplement in an Interactive Graphics System".
http://www.ee.udel.edu/InfoAccess/Publications/way_thesis_bib.ps
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=807392&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/force/

1976 MITs Visible Language Workshop founded by Muriel Cooper

1976 Alvy Ray Smith develops "tweening" software (NYIT)

1976 Dolby sound

1976 Jim Blinn develops reflectance and environment mapping (Univ of Utah)

1976 Nelson Max's sphere inversion film

1976 Ukrainian Pysanka Egg erected in Vegraville, Canada by Ron Resch (University of Utah) to commemorate the RCMP

1976 Sony Beta home video

1977 Dan Sandin and Richard Sayre invented a bend-sensing glove.
http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/briefhistory/vr_timeline/sayre.html
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/thesis/node33.html
http://www.computer.org/cga/cg1994/g1030abs.htm
http://www.ipo.tue.nl/homepages/mrauterb/presentations/HCI-history/sld065.htm
http://www.ipo.tue.nl/homepages/mrauterb/presentations/HCI-history/tsld065.htm

1977 JVC VHS home video

1977 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences introduces Visual Effects category for Oscars

1977 Nelson Max joins LLL; Jim Blinn joins JPL

1977 GKS (Graphical Kernal System) graphics standard introduced

1977 Fuchs multiprocessor visible surface algorithm

1977 Larry Cuba produces Death Star simulation for Star Wars using Grass at UICC developed by Tom DeFanti at Ohio State

1979 F. H. Raab et al. described the Polhemus tracking system.
http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/ihh/spatial/papers/pdfs_se/Ellis_1996_Virtual_Environments.html
http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~poup/3dui/spatial.html
http://people.imt.liu.se/~gosal/BMT02/artiklar/ultra/m105r1.pdf

1978 Tom DeFanti's GRASS system rewritten for Bally home computer (Zgrass)

1978 AT&T and Canadian Telidon introduce videotex graphics standard (NAPLPS)

1978 Digital Effects founded (Judson Rosebush, Jeff Kleiser, et al)

1978 Ikonas frame buffer - England/Whitton

1978 Leroy Nieman uses Ampex paint system to draw football players in Super Bowl

1978 R/Greenberg founded (Richard and Robert Greenberg)

1978 James Blinn produces the first of a series of animations titled The Mechanical Universe

1978 DEC VAX 11/780 introduced

1978 video laser disc

1978 Bump mapping introduced (Blinn)

1979 Eric Howlett (LEEP Systems, Inc.) designed the Large Expanse Enhanced Perspective (LEEP) Optics.
http://world.std.com/~leep/arv-1a.htm
http://cogsci.vassar.edu/CogSci311/InteractiveVR.pdf
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2002/cs7497_spring/Lectures/08HMDs.ppt
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2000/cs7497_spring/HMDs.ppt

1979 National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA) organized

1979 IBM 3279 color terminal

1979 SIGGRAPH CORE Graphics standard

1979 Sunstone - Ed Emshwiller (NYIT)

1979 George Lucas hires Ed Catmull, Ralph Guggenheim and Alvy Ray Smith to form Lucasfilm

1980 Andy Lippman developed an interactive video disk to drive around Aspen.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/RMB/old/old318/318.lect13.pdf
http://aegis.ateneo.net/cs175/files/introduction.ppt
http://america3.pcs.cnu.edu/~dbliss/ProjRpt/ProjectReport/SrProjectReport.htm

1980 Vol Libre - Loren Carpenter of Boeing

1980 Apollo Computer founded

1980 Turner Whitted of Bell Labs publishes ray tracing paper

1980 First NCGA conference - Arlington, Virginia - Steven Levine, President

1980 IBM licenses DOS from Microsoft

1980 Aurora Systems founded by Richard Shoup

1980 Disney uses computer graphics for the movie Tron

1980 MIT Media Lab founded by Nicholas Negroponte

1980 Pacific Data Images founded by Carl Rosendahl

1980 Hanna-Barbera, largest producer of animation in the U.S.,begins implementation of computer automation of animation process

1980 Sony Walkman

1981 Tom Furness developed the 'virtual cockpit'.
http://techcon.ncms.org/01con/speakers.htm
http://www.eimc.brad.ac.uk/news/us.htm
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/
http://http://www.hec.afrl.af.mil/Publications/histo.pdf
www.aect.org/Intranet/Publications/edtech/pdf/15.pdf

1981 G.J. Grimes, assigned to Bell Telephone Labs, patented a data entry glove
http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0%2Caid%2C95263%2C00.asp
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/fels93glovetalk.html
http://www.bandwidthmarket.com/resources/patents/data1/4414537.html

1981 Sony Betacam

1981 Tom DeFanti expands GRASS to Bally Z-50 machine (ZGRASS) - Univ Illinois - Chicago Circle

1981 IBM introduces the first IBM PC (16 bit 8088 chip)

1981 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications published by IEEE Computer Society and NCGA

1981 Digital Productions formed by Whitney and Demos

1981 Cranston/Csuri Productions founded by Chuck Csuri and Robert Kanuth

1981 R/Greenberg opens CGI division (Chris Woods)

1981 MITI Fifth Generation Computer Project announced by Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry

1981 REYES renderer written at LucasFilm

1981 Carla's Island - Nelson Max

1982 Thomas Zimmerman patented a data input glove based upon optical sensors, such that internal refraction could be correlated with finger flexion and extension
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_thinkresearch.nsf/pages/pan197.html
http://www.lsi.usp.br/~mkzuffo/PSI5787/Aula_03.pdf
http://www.psymbiote.org/glove.html
http://www.geocities.com/mellott124/glove1.htm
http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/foldoc/61/28.htm
http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~shollar/fingeracc/fingeracc.html
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/scivw-ftp/WWW/glove.html
http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/graphics/research/pub/papers/cgim99-flex.pdf
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/thesis/node154.html
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn10=US04988981

1982 The Last Starfighter (Digital Productions)

1982 The Geometry Engine (Clark)

1982 Jim Clark founds Silicon Graphics Inc.

1982 fractal rendering (Fournier, Fussell and Carpenter)

1982 Skeleton Animation System (SAS) developed at CGRG at Ohio State (Dave Zeltzer)

1982 Sony still frame video camera (Mavica)

1982 ACM begins publication of TOG (Transactions on Graphics)

1982 Tom Brighham develops morphing (NYIT)

1982 Adobe founded by John Warnock

1982 Atari develops the data glove.

1982 AutoDesk founded; AutoCAD released

1983 Mark Callahan built a see-through HMD at MIT.
http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~staadt/ECS289H/holloway93virtual.pdf

1983 Myron Krueger published Artificial Reality.
http://www.softatomic.com/retort/issue9/extras/extra01.htm
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/interaction/i97/artist_Krueger.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/282917/0
http://www.shift.com/content/web/270/1.html
http://www.junglescene.com/forums/browse.php?fid=42&tid=505&go=Myron+Krueger
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/336583/0
http://www.pearsonptg.com/book_detail/0,3771,0201522608,00.html

1983 Particle systems (Reeves - Lucasfilm)

1983 ILM computer graphics division develops "Genesis effect" for Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan

1983 SGI IRIS 1000 graphics workstation

1983 Road to Point Reyes - Lucasfilm

1983 Jim Blinn receives the first (1983) ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1983 Ivan Sutherland receives the first (1983) ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

1983 Steve Dompier's "Micro Illustrator" is first PC paint program (for Apple II)

1983 mip-mapping introduced for efficient texture mapping (Williams - NYIT)

1983 Sony and Philips introduce 1st CD player

1984 William Gibson wrote about "cyberspace" in Neuromancer.
http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/gibson.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/sep/doherty.html
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5972/gibson.html
http://www.cesnur.org/2001/london2001/aupers.htm
http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPtext/Glossary/gloss1.html#Cyberspace

1984 Mike McGreevy and Jim Humpries developed VIVED (VIrtual Visual Environment Display) system for future astronauts at NASA.
http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/IHpublications/mcgreevy/VRPE/wex.VRPE.4.html#plate

1984 Robert Able & Associates produces the 1st computer generated 30 second commercial used for Super Bowl (Brilliance)

1984 Wavefront Technologies is the first commercially available 3D software package.

1984 Thomson Digital Image (TDI) founded

1984 Jim Clark receives the 1984 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1984 International Resource Development report predicts the extinction of the keyboard in the next decade

1984 A-buffer (or alpha-buffer) introduced by Carpenter of Lucasfilm

1984 Distributed ray tracing introduced by Lucasfilm

1984 Cook shading model (Lucasfilm)

1984 14.5 minute computer generated IMAX film shown at SIGGRAPH 84 - 18 teams; 20 segments

1984 Universal Studios opens CG department

1984 First Macintosh computer is sold; introduced with Clio award winning commercial during Super Bowl

1984 - McDonnel Douglas introduces the Polhemus 3Space digitizer and body Tracker

1984 Radiosity born - Cornell University

1984 John Lasseter joins Lucasfilm

1984 Digital Productions (Whitney and Demos) get Academy Technical Achievement Award for CGI simulation of motion picture photography

1984 Lucasfilms introduces motion blur effects

1984 Porter and Duff compositing algorithm (Lucasfilm)

1984 The Adventures of Andre and Wally B. (Lucasfilm)

1985 VPL Research, Inc. was founded.
http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPtext/StreetTech/VPL.html
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vpl.html
http://people.advanced.org/~jaron/sun.html
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,10296,00.html
http://publish.uwo.ca/~sccheong/vr_display.htm

1985 Mike McGreevy and Jim Humphries built a HMD from monochrome LCD pocket television displays.
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~cohen/VW2000/Misc/Robinett_Holloway_94-031.pdf
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/VR/CaveTrain/cave_setup.html
http://www.blueprint2000.com/site/virtual/vr.html
http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/IHpublications/mcgreevy/VRPE/wex.VRPE.1.html
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/honors-program/freshsem/19951996/zadoc/systems.html
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2002/cs7497_spring/Lectures/book.pdf
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~pierreb/CourseLectures/VRHistory.pdf

1985 Commodore launches the new Amiga

1985 Loren Carpenter receives the 1985 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1985 Pierre Bezier receives the 1985 ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

1985 Sogitec founded (Xavier Nicolas)

1985 Abel Image Research takes Robert Abel & Associates to shaded graphics business

1985 Tony de Peltrie airs

1985 stereo TV

1985 CGW predicts 90s graphics workstation

1985 Targa 16 board (AT&T) goes to market

1985 Pixar Image Computer goes to market

1985 Perlin's noise functions introduced

1985 CD-ROMs High Sierra (ISO9660) standard introduced

1985 PostScript (Adobe - John Warnock)

1985 PODA creature animation system developed by Girard and Maciejewski at Ohio State

1985 Boss Films founded by Richard Edlund

1985 MIT Media Lab moves to new home

1986 The Great Mouse Detective was the first animated film to be aided by CG.

1986 Pixar purchased from Lucasfilm by Steve Jobs

1986 Trancept Systemes founded by Nick England and Mary Whitton - graphics board for Sun

1986 CGI group starts at Industrial Light and Magic (Doug Kay and George Joblove)

1986 Softimage founded by Daniel Langlois in Montreal

1986 Apple IIgs introduced

1986 Turner Whitted receives the 1986 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1986 Waldo project introduces motion capture (Digital Productions)

1986 Kajiya's Rendering Equation

1986 Omnibus assumes Robert Able & Associates and Digital Productions in hostile takeovers by John Pennie and investors

1986 Whitney/Demos Productions founded

1986 Intel introduces 82786 graphics coprocessor chip ; Texas Instruments introduces TMS34010 Graphics System Processor

1986 NSFNet

1986 Luxo Jr. nominated for Oscar (first CGI film to be nominated - Pixar)

1986 TIFF (Aldus)

1986 Scitex founded for prepress

1987 Jonathan Waldern formed W Industries.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/scivw-ftp/conferences/1991/InCyberspace.91.review
http://www.delphion.com/details%3Fpn%3DGB02201069A_
http://www.delphion.com/details%3Fpn10%3DUS04984179
http://www.forbes.com/specialsections/optical/04b.htm
http://www.saic.ru/news/jan00/news01-07-00.html
http://www.optipia.org/electric.html
http://www.cal-it.org/data/press/136.doc

1987 Tom Zimmerman et al. developed an interactive glove.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/189365/0
http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/publications/papers/98.02.CGA_Final.pdf
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~amulder/personal/vmi/BSCM1.pdf
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/people/ResearchStaff/amulder/personal/vmi/HMTT.add.html
http://www-ihm.lri.fr/~mackay/pdffiles/LaRecherche.English.pdf
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/books/LITTMAN.pdf

1987 GIF format (CompuServe)

1987 Willow (Lucasfilm) popularizes morphing

1987 Max Headroom debuts

1987 LucasArts formed

1987 Reynolds' flocking behavior algorithm (Symbolics)

1987 Rob Cook receives the 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1987 Don Greenberg receives the 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

1987 Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) founded at Ohio State

1987 Omnibus closes, eliminating DP and Abel

1987 Cranston/Csuri Productions closes

1987 Marching Cubes algorithm (Lorensen and Cline - GE)

1987 Metrolight Productions, RezN8 Productions, Kleiser/Walczak, DeGraf/Wahrman founded

1988 PICT format (Apple)

1988 Al Barr receives the 1988 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1988 Internet Worm infects servers all over the world

1988 U.S. Patent awarded to Pixar for RenderMan

1988 Disney and Pixar develop CAPS (Computer Animation Paint System) (academy technical award in 1992)

1988 PIXAR wins Academy award for Tin Toy

1989 Jaron Lanier, CEO of VPL, coined the term 'virtual reality'.
http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPtext/StreetTech/VirtualReality.html
http://www.cyborganic.com/People/jonathan/Academia/Papers/Web/defining-vr1.html
http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/social/papers/chesher.htm
http://www.hku.hk/psycho/project/2/vr_def.html
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/TimLenoir/MilitaryEntertainmentComplex.htm
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/syllabi/readings/chesher.txt
http://faculty.uscolo.edu/ebersole/336/eim/papers/vrhist.html
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/onthenet.html

1989 VPL Research and Autodesk introduced commercial head-mounted displays.
http://www.cscs.ch/~amangili/papers/06.virtual.pdf
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dejavu/caput/97/jelena/
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/papers/m-90-1.html

1989 Robert Stone formed the Virtual Reality & Human Factors Group at the UK's National Advanced Robotics Research Centre.
http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/bios/stonebio.shtml

1989 Eric Howlett built the LEEPvideo System I HMD.v

1989 VPL Research, Inc. began selling the EyePhone that used LCD displays and LEEP optics.
http://www.fe.org/artists/eyephone.html
http://www.wdv.com/Notebook/EyePhone/
http://www.vpl.ca/board/2002/2002-04-23-minutes.html

1989 AutoDesk, Inc. demonstrated their PC-based VR CAD system, Cyberspace, at SIGGRAPH'89
http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/ovrt/people/sressler/mfg/mfgVRpaper.fm.html
http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/ovrt/projects/mfg/mfgvr.pdf
http://www.cyber-wizard.co.uk/Suppliers.htm
http://www.cadfx.com/
http://securities.stanford.edu/1016/ADSK00/20010223f17o001285.html
http://www.tourolaw.edu/2ndcircuit/july96/95-7279.html

1989 Robert Stone and Jim Hennequin co-invented the Teletact I Glove.
http://wwwtlc1.murdoch.edu.au/gen/aset/confs/iims/94/qz/stone.html
http://www.sun.ac.za/virtualreality/main.html
http://www.aviation.uiuc.edu/institute/acadProg/epjp/humFacsites/hotlist.html
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/humanapps.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/virtual-reality/virtual-worlds/faq/commercial/Teletact
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/I.C.ForceTactile.html
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/scivw-ftp/commercial/Teletact
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/honors-program/freshsem/19951996/zadoc/systems.html
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/workshops/haptic/papers/stone.pdf

1989 Reflection Technologies produced the Private Eye.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/scivw-ftp/papers/Pausch.5DollarsADay

1989 John Warnock receives the 1989 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1989 David Evans receives the 1989 ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

1989 8MM videotape introduced by Sony

1989 ILM creates the Abyss

1989 PIXAR starts marketing RenderMan

1990 J.R. Hennequin and R. Stone, assigned to ARRL, patents for the Teletact tactile feedback glove.

1990 Sense8 Corporation founded by Pat Gelband.
http://www.learningsites.com/GebelBarkal-2/GB-B700v2.htm
http://www.sense8.com/company/index-jobs.html

1990 ARRL ordered Division's first VR system.
http://www.softlab-nsk.com/History.html
http://www.calumet.yorku.ca/sosc3310/L4-OC5-ORIGINS.html

1990 Microsoft ships Windows 3.0

1990 NewTek Video Toaster

1990 First edition of Graphics Gems published by Academic Press (Andrew Glassner, editor)

1990 U.S. Patent awarded to Pixar for point sampling

1990 Richard Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith receive the 1990 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1990 3D Studio (AutoDesk)

1990 John Wiley & Sons begins publishing The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation

1991 Division sold their first VR system.
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/vr.html
http://www.sharjah.ac.ae/courseware/computer_science/Ashraf%20Elnagar/0211395/Seminars/9725034.ppt

1991 W Industries sold their first VIRTUALITY system.
http://amiga.emugaming.com/virtuality.html

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/scivw-ftp/commercial/WIndustries/W.descrip

1991 Richard Holmes, assigned to W Industries, patented a tactile feedback glove.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw31/bergamasco.html
http://www.mindflux.com.au/products/vti/cybertouch.html

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/virtual-worlds/glove-faq/
http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/people/faculty/capps/4473/projects/smithml/glove.ppt
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/scivw-ftp/WWW/VR_Resource_Guide.html
http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ONR/realization_report/rosenblum.034.html

1991 World Wide Web (CERN)

1991 Jim Kajiya receives the 1991 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1991 Andy van Dam receives the 1991 ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

1991 Disney and PIXAR agree to create 3 films, including the first computer animated full-length film Toy Story

1991 ILM produces Terminator 2

1991 Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

1991 Kodak PhotoCD

1991 JPEG/MPEG

1992 T.G. Zimmerman, assigned to VPL Research, patented a glove using optical sensors.
http://www.sharjah.ac.ae/courseware/computer_science/Ashraf%20Elnagar/0211395/Seminars/9725034.ppt
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/189365/0
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/mit/sectionc/schmaref.html

1992 Division demonstrated a multi-user VR system.
http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/research/publications/papers/VR94.pdf
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/Electronic/documnts/papers/sdb_bdy.htm

1992 Thomas DeFanti et al. demonstrated the CAVE system at SIGGRAPH.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/6213/0
http://www.muritech.com/visembryo/sigbio93/SIGBIO93.html
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~thompson/vissim-seminar/on-line/CruzNeiraSig93.pdf

http://www.evl.uic.edu/anstey/THING/aw_article.html
http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n4/contributions/buxton2.html
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~pierreb/CourseLectures/VRHistory.ppt

http://cave.ncsa.uiuc.edu/about.html

1993 SGI announced the RealityEngine.
http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/graphics/reality.html
http://futuretech.mirror.vuurwerk.net/re.html
http://www.sintexindustries.com/Asylum/

1993 Bob Stone and Andy Connell appear on BBC TV's 9 O'Clock News demomnstrating Europe's first CAD-converted VR application (the Rolls-Royce Trent 800 aero engine.

1993 Bob Stone and UK VR Team launch VRS (Virtual Reality & Simulation) - the world's first industry-funded VR initiative.

1992 Disney and Pixar get Academy Technical Achievement Award for CAPS production system

1992 QuickTime introduced (Apple)

1992 Henry Fuchs receives the 1992 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1992 Softimage goes public

1992 Lawnmower Man (Angel Studios)

1992 U.S. Patent awarded to Pixar for Non-Affine Image Warping

1992 VIFX uses flock animation with Prism software to create large groups of animals

1992 Tom Brigham and ILM get Academy Technical Achievement Award for morphing technique

1993 disk array and compression codecs allow for nonlinear editing and full motion video

1993 Pixar gets Academy Technical Achievement Award for development of Renderman

1993 Pat Hanrahan receives the 1993 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1993 Ed Catmull receives the 1993 ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

1993 Jurassic Park - ILM and Steven Spielberg

1993 Wavefront buys TDI

1993 Mosaic browser (NCSA)

1993 Myst released (Cyan) - in 1998, it became the top selling game of all time

1993 Digital Domain founded by James Cameron, Stan Winston, and Scott Ross

1994 InSys and the Manchester Royal Infirmary launched Europe's first VR R&D Centre for Minimally Invasive Therapy.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/medvr/medvr.html
http://www.hop.man.ac.uk/HIR%26D/Seminar130599.html
http://www.hop.man.ac.uk/HIR&D/Seminar130599.html#Virtual%20Environments%20in%20Medicine%20-%20An%20overview%20and%20some%20challenges

1994 Proceedings of the 1st UK VR-SIG Conference
http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/events/ukvrsig-1/

1994 The Virtual Reality Society was formed.
http://www.vrs.org.uk/
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~mourant/news1.html
http://vered.rose.utoronto.ca/

1994 Sandy Ressler "Open Virtual Reality Testbed"
http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/ovrt/people/sressler/veMosaicWERB.pdf

1994 SGI and Nintendo team up for Nintendo 64 product

1994 ILM earns Oscar for special effects for Jurassic Park

1994 Microsoft acquires Softimage

1994 Doom hits game market

1994 Direct Broadcast Satellite service

1994 HDTV standard for transmission adopted in US

1994 U.S. Patent awarded to Pixar for creating, manipulating and displaying images

1994 Ken Torrance receives the 1994 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1995 Frank A. Biocca § and J.P. Rolland §§ "Virtual Eyes"
http://www.mindlab.msu.edu/presence/presence.html

1995 Toy Story (Pixar)

1995 DreamWorks founded (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)

1995 Pixar gets Academy Award for digital scanning technology

1995 U.S. Patent awarded to Pixar for image volume data

1995 John Lasseter of Pixar gets Academy Award for development and application of techniques used in Toy Story

1995 Kurt Akeley (SGI) receives the 1995 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1995 Jose Encarnacao receives the 1995 ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award

1995 Wavefront and Alias merge

1995 Pixar goes public with 6.9M share offering

1995 Sony Playstation introduced

1996 Microsoft include Superscape's VISCAPE as part of their Internet Explorer Starter Kit.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/Oct96/IESK30PR.asp

1996 The Virtual Reality Society launches its Web site.
http://www.vrs.org.uk/
http://www2.vsl.gifu-u.ac.jp/vrsje/
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/VETopLevels/VR.History.html
http://www.vruniverse.com/

1996 Internet 2 unveiled

1996 Quake hits game market

1996 Marc Levoy receives the 1996 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1996 Colossal Pictures files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

1996 Windows 95 ships

1997 VIFX joins with Blue Sky

1997 DVD technology unveiled

1997 Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz receives the 1997 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1997 Jim Kajiya of Cal Tech gets Academy Award for development and application of CGI hair and fur

1997 Pixar interactive division dissolved

1998 Titanic becomes the largest grossing motion picture in U.S history

1998 Alias Maya released

1998 Quicktime 3.0 released

1998 Boss Films closes

1998 Riven released

1998 Sun gets back into graphics with the Darwin Ultra series of workstations

1998 MPEG-4 standard announced

1998 SGI and Microsoft form partnership to develop APIs; SGI will develop NT-based PCs

1998 Geri's Game (Pixar) - awarded the Academy Award for Animated Short

1998 Colossal Pictures emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy

1998 The SIGGRAPH Conference celebrates its 25th Anniversary in Orlando

1998 Michael Cohen (Microsoft) receives the 1998 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award

1998 Pixar awarded a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for the development of software that produces images used in motion pictures from 3D computer descriptions of shape and appearance
  ADDITIONAL READINGS IN NO SPECIFIC ORDER AT THIS POINT IN TIME
http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~waynec/history/timeline.html#1940
http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ONR/realization_report/rosenblum.toc.html
http://www.agocg.ac.uk/reports/virtual/27/27.pdf
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~lgonggr/VRLinks.html
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/library/papers/weiss.html
http://www-vrl.umich.edu/Eng477/
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/irvr/irvr.html
http://kb.hitl.washington.edu/research.html
http://www.psicologia.net/
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vpl.html
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed386178.html
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/optek/1997/n1/davis.txt
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/kb/meta.html
http://www.sense8.com/gallery/gal_info_cyber.html
http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/HeimEssence.html
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~jwworth/6.2.1VRbiblio.html
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/VRArt/
http://www.npsnet.org/~zyda/courses/1HistoryOfVR.pdf
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/virtual-reality/papers/whatisvr.txt
http://www.psicologia.net/pages/survey.htm
http://www.evl.uic.edu/home.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/290271.html
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/VRArt/
http://www.lrv.ufsc.br/~pinho/links.html


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