Leibniz's Palace of the Fates: A Seventeenth-Century Virtual Reality System
Eric Charles Steinhart · PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality · 1997
In the late 1600s the mathematician and philosopher Leibniz produced the first description of a virtual reality system. He described an organized system of virtual worlds available for human perceptual exploration, along with an interface for exploring them. Leibniz's work on the logic of possible worlds has direct relevance to the conceptual foundations of virtual reality work today.