Augmented Reality: "The Ultimate Display" by Ivan Sutherland, 1965

(((This famous essay from 1965 was a seed-bomb of emergent technologies. For Augmented Reality, this is the equivalent of Vannevar Bush's famous essay about computer networks, "As We May Think" (1945). )))

The Ultimate Display

Ivan E. Sutherland

Information Processing Techniques 
Office, ARPA, OSD

We live in a physical world whose properties we have come to know well through long familiarity. We sense an involvement with this physical world which gives us the ability to predict its properties ...