VR Goggles
In 1989, Back to The Future Part II showed a scarily accurate version of a VR headset, worn by none other than Marty McFly. Today, these headsets are everywhere, from the Meta Quest 3 to Apple’s Vision Pro.
Even earlier, however, there was a science fiction short story from 1935 called Pygmalion’s Spectacles. The short story predicted goggles that would give you:
“a movie that gives one sight and sound […] taste, smell, and touch. […] You are in the story, you speak to the shadows (characters) and they reply, and instead of being on a screen, the story is all about you, and you are in it.”
That could have come right out of Mark Zuckerberg’s mouth about the Metaverse, but it really came from Stanley G. Weinbaum almost 100 years earlier.
