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the self-contained unit featured a built-in 5-inch monitor

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Its iconic bright orange "briefcase" design

it was actually a budget-friendly consumer adaptation of the "DataGlove"—a high-end virtual reality tool used by NASA that cost nearly $10

Holmes-Style Stereoscopic Viewer (1861) Models on Display:Holmes-Style Stereoscope NeXT ComputerHolmes Style Stereoscopic Viewer The Holmes Style Stereoscope, invented by American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1859, was a wildly popular 19th century gadget that became the Victorian era's version of virtual reality. Constructed out of lightweight wood and a simple metal wire frame, this handheld viewer worked by tricking the human brain into seeing flat, two dimensional images as realistic, three dimensional spaces. A user would