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GALLERY · TECHNOLOGY

Shifting Realities

Howard A. Rose

Howard A. RoseJune 25, 2026 · 1 min read

Looking back at us looking forward. Three decades of magazines, movies, and ads imagining virtual reality — a reminder of how long we’ve been dreaming this dream, and how the picture keeps shifting.

1992: Lawnmower Man

1994: PC Magazine

1995: VR World

1995: VR Troopers

1996: Victor Maxx — “Be the Man, Play with Reality”

1996: PC Gamer

1999: Visionary Position

2002: Life in the Future

2011: Godwired

2014: PC Magazine

2015: Food & Wine

2015: Time

2016: Make

2016: Future of VR

2016: BBC Guide

2017: PC Magazine — “VR no longer sucks”

2017: VR Magazine

2017: Convene

2019: Pain Free Living

2018: New Yorker

2019: Alzheimer’s Today

2019: Religion Online

2019: Chinese Tourism

2020: Future of Entertainment

2021: VR WorldTech

2021: VR Church

Howard A. Rose

Host · Anatomy of Experience

Howard A. Rose

VR and digital-health pioneer, TEDMED and TEDx speaker, writing at the frontier of what it means to be human.

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