Video game development
The history of game making begins with the development of the first video games, although which video game is the first depends on the definition of "video game". The first games created had little entertainment value, and their development focus was separate from user experience—in fact, these games required mainframe computers to play them. "OXO", written by Alexander S. Douglas in 1952, was the first computer game to use a digital display. In 1958, a game called "Tennis for Two", which displayed its output on an oscilloscope, was made by Willy Higinbotham, a physicist working at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1961, a mainframe computer game called "Spacewar!" was developed by a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students led by Steve Russell.
Time Traveler (video game)
Although Time Traveler (video game) was released in 1991 by Sega as the first holographic-like video game, Kathy Nelson (MIT, BSEE 1993) created the world's first true holographic video game in 1993. It was the first video game to use real holograms instead of optical effects, such as concave mirrors. The holograms were created and displayed by Holovideo (see Computer-generated holography), which was developed by members of the MIT Media Lab Spatial Imaging Group.
Kathy Nelson created the holographic video game for her undergraduate thesis in the MIT Media Lab Spatial Imaging Group. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology published her thesis here: style="color:#3366BB;">Real time holographic image rendering : improvements in lighting and realism