What will VR in the future look like?

When you apply Moore’s Law, the processing power of this technology is only going to grow. The headsets will get lighter, less clunky, and will end up being fashion items themselves.

The objection of not wanting to wear a big heavy thing on your head will completely go away.

A big challenge (or opportunity, depending how you look at it) will come for the leisure and entertainment industries.

Why bother getting on a plane to go on holiday, when you can enjoy the most beautiful vistas from the comfort of your own home?

The same goes for sports and music events – VR could give you the best seats in the house at Wembley, without the three-figure ticket price, and you could watch the game or concert whenever you wanted.

And what about work? Will you ever need to go into the office again? If you did, VR could be used to transform your workplace into an environment more suited to your taste.

Filmmaker Chris Milk has been making movies with VR to create the ‘ultimate empathy machine’ – his TED talk is well worth a watch.

You can start to see VR applications have a big impact as how we behave as a society. I am sure that the CES event this week will be full of new demonstrations of VR potential.

I think the real proof in how big this is going to be comes down to the market capitalisation of VR. It would normally take a company several years to reach a value of £1bn. It took Oculus Rift just a year.

The future is a virtual one, and it’s going to be a whole different world to what we have today.

http://gblogs.cisco.com/uki/techtalk-virtual-and-augmented-reality-is-about-to-change-your-world/

here's to forthcoming deals....Cheers,

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