Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
En 1938, Antonin Artaud described the illusory nature of characters and objects in the theatre as «la réalité virtuelle» in a collection of essays, Le Théâtre et son double . The English translation of this book, published in 1958 as The Theater and its Double,[1] is the earliest published use of the term «virtual reality».
The term «artificial reality«, coined by Myron Krueger, has been in use since the 1970s.