So you hear virtual reality and think it’s just image of objects in 3D, sorry you thought wrong. If you think it is looking around an image captured in 360°, wrong again. More than that, virtual reality places you in an experience of past events and allows you relive the event and experience again. Just like in the movie Déjà Vu staring Denzel Washington, you can place yourself in the past and experience different emotions each time you do. At least that is what my experience with VR was.
Prepare to be wowed and mesmerised as you journey into a virtual world where awareness for your immediate surrounding gradually slips away and you assume consciousness of the perceived reality. Find yourself wanting to interact and engage within the virtual world. I always tell myself it’s a virtual world not real, but find each time in the VR world, I stretch out my hand to touch or grab objects in the world I said it’s not real, why is this so? “Assumed Reality”. Once I tried jumping in the virtual space, at another time while still sitting I reached out to grab a chair to sit.
2016 has been called “the year of VR”. Just this October Google introduced Daydream View, an upgrade to the Google cardboard. Other brands like Xiaomi and LG made their entry early this year, and not forgetting Samsung gear and Oculus Rift. So why should one spend $79 (Google Daydream View) on a headset? Well for a start, VR headsets are getting more comfortable, affordable and allow for more interaction with the virtual world.
Also a new TV series like Halcyon available exclusively to Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear hopes to expand viewer experience by developing VR content, not to forget recent announcement for ‘Blade Runner 2049‘ to include VR component bringing new experience to cinema.
Presently Samsung Galaxy 6 and later models can deliver optimum VR experience when leashed to the headset, there are more players to break into the market with augmented capability phones to give the immersive experience. Google Pixel and PixelXL, Tango from Lenovo are some of the phones.
Why do you think VR is content and technology is catching up and what other ways can it be used? I’ll like to hear from you.
