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Gibson Guitar Corp.—the same company that makes the iconic Les Pau electric guitar—holds a patent that describes a concert simulation system whereby a user would wear a 3D, virtual-reality headset and pretend to participate in a music concert while playing their own musical instrument. The company filed for the patent in 1998 (it was granted in late 1999), and apparently filed in a drawer when the whole "VR" craze got canceled along with Lawnmower Man and the TV series VR5.
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