Brief History on Interactivity

Short survey:

• ELIZA - Joseph Weizenbaum 1962
• Tennis for 2 - William Higinbotham 1958
• SAGE system - USAF late 1950s
• Sketchpad - Ivan Sutherland 1962
• Mother of All Demos - Douglas Engelbart SRI 1968
• "Sword of Damocles", the first HMD - Ivan Sutherland MIT 1968
• SEEK - Nicholas Negroponte 1970
• Videoplace, Responsive Environment - Myron Kruger 1970s-90s
• Aspen Interactive Movie Map - MIT Architecture Machine Group 1979
• Steve Jobs visits Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1979 (dramatization)
• Text Rain - Romy Achituv & Camille Utterback 1999
• ARQuake - Wearable Computer Lab, U of S Australia 2002
• L.A.S.E.R. Tag - Grafitti Research Lab 2007
• Hand from Above - Chris O'Shea 2009

Ivan Sutherland in The Ultimate Display 1965:

The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be fatal. With appropriate programming such a display could literally be the Wonderland into which Alice walked.