Virtual reality - Sir Charles Wheatstone
Time: 1838
Place: England, United Kingdom
Details: Sir Charles Wheatstone was the first to describe stereopsis in 1838 and was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1840 for his explanation of binocular vision, a research which led him to construct the stereoscope.
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