Many of us are ‘over’ virtual reality (VR), even if it has yet to happen in the way we imagine it. Always about to arrive, VR has exhausted any sane sense of anticipation. To sustain itself, the enthusiasm that it sparks about what could be over the next technological horizon sometimes rebounds, instead, toward the past to rediscover historical precursors. Witness, for example, the unlikely resuscitation of the Viewmaster in 2015, using a smartphone as a very expensive, moving-image stereoscope.1 As popular interest waxes and wanes, VR seems to have always been around and to be always emerging, but never to have completely arrived.

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客座编辑介绍：虚拟现实：沉浸感和同理心

我们中的许多人已经“结束”了虚拟现实 (VR)，即使它还没有以我们想象的方式发生。总是即将到来，VR 已经耗尽了任何理智的期待感。为了维持自身的发展，它所激发的对下一个技术领域可能发生的事情的热情有时会反弹，相反，它会回到过去以重新发现历史先驱。例如，2015 年 Viewmaster 不太可能复苏，将智能手机用作非常昂贵的运动图像立体镜。 1 随着大众兴趣的消退，VR 似乎一直存在并不断出现，但从未出现已经完全到了。