Turning Silicon into Gold: The Strategies, Failures, and Evolution of the Tech Industry

© Griffin Kao, Jessica Hong, Michael Perusse and Weizhen Sheng 2020

G. Kao et al.Turning Silicon into Goldhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5629-9_19

19. The Rise and Fall of Virtual Reality

What It Takes to Create Technological Disruption

Griffin Kao¹ , Jessica Hong², Michael Perusse³ and Weizhen Sheng⁴

(1)

Wynnewood, PA, USA

(2)

Edina, MN, USA

(3)

Cambridge, MA, USA

(4)

Markham, ON, Canada

 

In Pygmalion’s Spectacles, Stanley G. Weinbaum describes “a movie that gives one sight and sound. Suppose now I add taste, smell, even touch ... Suppose I make it so that you are in the story, you speak to the shadows, and the shadows reply, and instead of being on a screen, the story is all about you, and you are in it. Would that be to make real a dream?” Such a fantastical ...