It’s going to be a while before HoloLens, Microsoft’s newly developed augmented reality headset, will become a mainstream product. But since its debut last year, the tech giant has been teasing the potential for HoloLens across different categories, including video games and as a tool for businesses. Now, Microsoft is expanding on that, revealing a freshconcept based around the NFL — just in time for Super Bowl 50.
There’s no doubt that what Oculus and Samsung managed to achieve with the mobile Gear VR headset is impressive, but one aspect, positional tracking, lags far behind desktop VR headsets. Oculus CTO John Carmack has affirmed his team’s focus on adding this missing piece to an otherwise excellent mobile VR package.
Not that long ago there were many that were skeptical that, in the wake of the largely (and unsurprisingly) disappointing experiences offered by Google’s unashamedly low-rent Cardboard movement, that Samsung could pull off a substantially better experience with its Samsung Galaxy Note 4 powered mobile VR headset, the Gear VR. However, the combination of Oculus’ VR engineering prowess and Samsung’s proven industrial design expertise produced a so-called ‘Innovator Edition’ Gear VR that really did deliver a compelling VR experience.
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A great video by Goldman Sachs. Lots of money invested in VR and by many people. According to the article, the race for the next computing platform may be over. Heather Bellini of Goldman Sachs Research expects virtual and augmented reality to become an $80 billion market by 2025, roughly the size of the desktop PC market today. In this video, Bellini discusses how the technology has improved since earlier launch attempts and how it’s already transforming sectors like real estate, healthcare and education.
We are all jumping headlong into the VR future. Hang on a minute I heard that before !
Didn’t we went through this in the 80’s and it kind of fizzles out.
Virtual Reality in the 80’s were big bulky heavy and need a supercomputer.
Moore’s Law.
Now, we have supercomputer in our pockets.
We have even more powerful computer in the form of personal computers and super laptops
Join us and dive in…
