First look: In virtual reality, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers soul-stirring ‘Dream’ speech at DuSable Museum

Chicago, Illinois - February 27, 2020 - Seated behind an old desk of his at the DuSable Museum of African American History, an animatronic Harold Washington occasionally rouses himself to tell part of his story as Chicago’s first black mayor.

That was, let’s call it, first-generation virtual reality technology.