My first internship was at a biology research startup back in ‘96. My supervisor, the head of R&D, had an SGI w/ 3d goggles and a glove and would spend hours i

My first internship was at a biology research startup back in ‘96. My supervisor, the head of R&D, had an SGI w/ 3d goggles and a glove and would spend hours in front of it manipulating virtual molecules. He would talk about his days as a PhD student at Stanford in the early 70s working with punch cards and the progress of computing up until that time just over 20 years later… and thought that maybe in 10 years, when his rig that cost about $100k would be cheap enough for the average consumer, it would be the next step in personal computing.