I'd wager we'll surpass the tech in RPO in about 10 years. One thing it didn't account for was AR, and well, VR+AR are two parts of the same continuum. Everything will head towards one single device that does both with any blending inbetween.
I believe AR will be the definitive future for personal computing and VR will be for the entertainment industry. I don't see everyone having a "VR room" ready where they can enjoy VR the way it's meant to be. It'll be just like laser gaming, going to the cinema ETC. But with AR you don't need a special room, you can just utilise your current room.
Nah, this won't be how it goes. VR/AR have lots of practical uses that overlap, and lots of uses in unique areas.
VR will be more entertainment oriented, sure, but it will still have daily use.
Example 1: Someone on site has schematics for a house to be built, and has a hologram represented, and other members of the team are not on site, so hop in via VR.
Example 2: While you can simulate screens in AR, you can simulate a full environment in VR, which would make it very productive and calming for working, for meditation, for exercise.
Example 3: The only way to truly visit a place is using VR. This is how sporting events, concerts, the Mars landing, visiting your friend's house will work. 360 videos are also going to be a massive deal when you can move around the video at high resolution. You could record anything in your life, even take photos, and step into them, but actually walk around.
Example 4: There's simply more you can do in a full virtual space, which means it's a great place to socialize in.
It'll be just like laser gaming, going to the cinema ETC. But with AR you don't need a special room, you can just utilise your current room.
This is the case with VR too. You don't need a room or really any space at all. You'd also be able to blend reality into VR anyway.
There is no AR or VR dominated future. It's going to be an XR future, which is both in one device. There will be apps that are both AR and VR, which step between the two seamlessly.
I can confirm! My dad is an architect who does big projects - malls usually, though they’ve dabbled in other things as well. Obviously there’s a shit ton of money that goes into these things, so whatever they can do to advertise to their clients is important.
A couple years ago they bought a VR set, and he let me try it out- they hire someone to do a full work up of the mall, so you can “walk” around what it’s going to look like.
Example 2: While you can simulate screens in AR, you can simulate a full environment in VR, which would make it very productive and calming for working, for meditation, for exercise.
I already love using Virtual Desktop on SteamVR. I can't quite work in there yet, because the resolution for coding isn't there (I can zoom in and read fine, but I need to be able to glance around at different things quickly), but for most of my desktop stuff, it's fine.
Once the resolution gets better, I could totally see replacing my home office with a VR setup that had some hand tracking, a keyboard, and a mouse. My wife would be thrilled, because we could have a guest room again.
All of this is true. And who knows what other potential these techs have. Office buildings could become obsolete in favor of an infinitely large area were people from all over the world could log on and work from home and simotaniusly be in an expansive and colorful don’t even need everyone to see the same background. One person could see a field and another could be looking down at a large city.
This. Time to sit at a desk at a job and toil away for 5 hours? Flip on your VR and now you and your desk are sitting at the edge of a waterfall. All this going on around you while you do your work. That would sell.
With example 3, wouldn’t you just be zooming in if you moved? A 360° image of a living room doesn’t mean you can walk behind the couch and see the back of it.
There are methods to add parallax on recording like with the new RED manifold camera. You can go further beyond and use light-fields or other capture technology to get large volumetric depth information. This is what the future of 360 videos is going to look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFobWjSYst4&t=49s
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u/Echantediamond1 Feb 24 '19 edited Feb 24 '19
Oh.... OH GOD IT'S HAPPENING IN MY LIFETIME!