Your Blind Passenger by Olafur Eliasson. Photography courtesy Tate Modern.
The mirrorworld will reflect not just what something looks like but its context, meaning, and function. We will interact with it, manipulate it, and experience it like we do the real world."
Virtual reality is posed to become a fundamental technology, and outfits like Magic Leap have an opportunity to become some of the largest companies ever.
“Our vision is that VR / AR will be the next major computing platform after mobile in about 10 years. It can be even more ubiquitous than mobile - especially once we reach AR - since you can have it always on… Once you have a good VR / AR system, you no longer need to buy phones or TVs or many other physical objects - they can just become apps in a digital store.’ — Mark Zuckerberg, 2015
This should be VR’s moment, but instead it’s still stuck as a subset of games consoles, and that isn’t why Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus. How will that change? Do we get another VR winter?
Everyone is sharing this new PS5 graphics demo. It looks very pretty. But, no-one thinks it will make games consoles break out of the 150-200m installed base. Now read across to VR. https://t.co/54hjNTr6Gg
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Sinclair, product head at Mojo Vision, to talk about “smart” contact lenses, why glasses are harder, working on this for ten years, gambling as a killer app, the possibilities of “invisible computing”…
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