Artificial Horizon. Blind Flight in the History of Virtual Reality

Histories of virtual reality (VR) usually place its origins in computing. But this can be pushed back even further by considering early experiments flight, principally the endeavour to fly instrument, that took late 1920s and throughout 1930s. This essay positions blind flight history other immersive media order understand what sensory deprivation has do with proprioception. Deprived visual aural senses, pilots were taught reorient their perception space using artificial horizon as guide. uses metaphor discuss relationship between overload, both which disturb internal process makes proprioception possible. Applying method archeology places study among others have sought historicise contemporary unique ways, often unexpected outcomes.&nbsp