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The future of VR/AR
| If it gets cheaper, maybe it'll last longer.
| From my personal experience, VR isnt immersive enough for it to have a solid footing for existing, however VR as well as AR serves other purposes such as for educative reason.
It may not be as hyped as it initially was, but I do believe it wont just die off.
| Die off no, there will be some areas where it will exist. But it is definitely a fad, overhyped from movies and whatever fantasy you have.
There was a time some years ago that the hype was all about 3d cinema and 3d tv. You'd think every home by now would be with a 3d tv.
And yet, some 6-9 years later now, 3d cinemas are not only a few, but with only a few people in them. And not only homes have normal tv, but the 3d tv have almost disappeared from the stores. They're shit.
| I think AR could become as normal as mobile phones in the future
| Ar will be successful because it is cheap and accessible by many people because of mobile
Vr needs to work but if PlayStation vr and steam working like that we will see future
| I honestly never expected VR and AR to succeed. It was unfortunately picked up by many companies trying to innovate in something that's simply not practical. It just seems too cumbersome to set up to be worth all the hassle.
| >>319848 It all was the race to capitalise and make money on something that was so idealised and in hyperbole, while it tourned out to be not only unpractical but also even disturbing and uncomfortable. Vendors flocked with the advertisment of a tech that just didn't cut it. And probably ended up not making money but loosing money with all their adds and producing useless things that nobody bought. I am happy for that, people want to buy products, not empty promises and garbage.
| Im currently doing research on VR AR and cybernetic field in Japan. There r so many research on immversive VR like neglecting physical world movement, real and virtual world transitioning. The only reason that we cant achieve immersive is limit of hardware. I could say that it is possible but not very soon.
| Full immersive AR environments overlayed on dark rooms with solid stuff so it's like holodeck. That is my wish for the future.
| >>319668 People thought 3d tv's were a stupid idea when they came out. The only 3d movie that ever impressed the mass audience was Avatar. VR has potential in both entertainment and education applications giving it a wider appeal. For now it's too expensive with too high a hardware requirement to become popular with a majority of gamers. Give it another decade and it'll pick up more steam.
| >>321320 Well, back in 2004 or so I got me an nvidia card which came with glasses that you could play any shooter or space game in 3d. It rendered for each each eye from two slightly separate points of view and it did create the effect properly. I plaied a lot of Unreal/UT99, Descent Freespace 1/2, Warcraft 3, Soul Reaver, Half Life, with it. And after six months or so, I went back to play all those games normally again, without the glasses. The game experience was better that way.
| I was all the time enthusiastic though, the tech would get better and in a few years other products would appear, similar to that pioneer of a thing that I had, without the eye tiring effect.
Ten years passed, 2014 came and I saw the failure of the 3d tv and vr everywhere bubble. Now it is 2018, I know more, I understand the balance between comfort/price/quality/complex much better. And I won't be holding my breath for whatever is still to come just in 10 more other years.
| Die off? No. It will either get cheaper, or we will find a different way to immerse ourselves in virtual world (like brain implants).
| In future sao "^^
| There is an eye implant research for blind people. They will be able to see but it is really really limited only work on some kind of blind and it is monotone with 7x7 resolution. But atleast it shows that this kind of technology is possible. If you guys want a paper of this research, I might be able to give you.
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| What are your thoughts on the future of virtual and augmented reality? Any hopes for the future? Or is it just all a fad that'll die down in a couple of years?