---
title: "This is Year One—The Dawn of Virtual Reality"
description: "It begins."
date: "2016-03-29"
modified: "2016-04-26"
authors:
  - name: "Luke Kingma"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/lukekingmagmail-com"
url: "https://futurism.com/images/year-one-dawn-virtual-reality"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "oculus"
  - "virtual reality"
---

# This is Year One—The Dawn of Virtual Reality

![The Dawn of VR featured image](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DawnOfVR_feat.jpeg>)

![The dawn of VR infographic](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DawnOfVR_V4.jpg>)

## Author
Former copywriter turned journalist. Crawled through a river of obtrusive display ads, and came out clean on the other side. Now serving as Head of Creative at Futurism.

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