![]() ![]() Zuckerberg would shell out $2 billion to buy the startup Oculus VR, which had yet to ship a product. Apparently the illusion worked: Weeks later, in a move that shocked just about everyone, Mr. Zuckerberg can be sent flying through the air like Superman. ![]() By this time the technology is so advanced that Mr. (It would be years before computers could display convincing imagery in a 3-D headset.) Fast-forward to 2014, when Jeremy Bailenson, a Stanford professor and one-time Lanier protégé, is giving a virtual-reality demo to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook. ![]() Uncredentialed either as a businessman or as an academic, he is driven in his pursuit of a technology he can barely explain, much less realize. When the reader first meets Jaron Lanier, often touted as the “father of virtual reality,” in Silicon Valley in the early 1980s, the valley is a gearhead’s playpen filled with quirky places and even quirkier people-Mr. Photo: David McNew/Getty Images WHAT A DIFFERENCE A FEW DECADES CAN MAKE. ![]()
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