List of blog posts tagged as "retrospective".
When was the best time to be alive?
Has it even happened yet?
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 came out and the OG Xbox was released and had some time to get into its groove, so around 2003-2004. Yeah, VR wasn't really a consumer grade thing yet (HTC Vive wouldn't come along until 2016), and that part sucked, but overall...
On December 7, 2004, Thunderbird 1.0 was released. 20 years later, we're on version 128.4.1! That's a lot of releases!
There are a lot of times in VR's history which led to tons of user adoption, and one of those times was when Google created a mobile app that turned your phone into a simple VR headset that could look around at depth-enabled content and even connect wirelessly to your computer to play games with stereoscopic 3D visuals. Soon after that, Disney partnered with HTC to advertise a Google app called Tilt Brush which ran on the HTC Vive as a launch exclusive. Tilt Brush was actually release April 2016 as a freebie for Vive purchasers. That's right, Tilt Brush was a launch title for the HTC Vive, and its advertising was about Disney using it to create 3D Little Mermaid drawings. Times were simpler...