16 Experts Predict the Future of Virtual Reality

16 Experts Predict the Future of Virtual Reality

Remember this picture from a Virtual Reality conference which Mark Zuckerberg shared, and it went viral? Some said the photo was creepy, like a glimpse into a dystopian future where people are cut off from the real world, opting instead to spend their time in VR. Here’s what Mark had to say when people doubted the future of Virtual Reality: “I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along. Critics worry that if we spend time paying attention to that new kind of media or technology instead of talking to each other that that is somehow isolating. But humans are fundamentally social. So I think in reality, if a technology doesn’t actually help us socially understand each other better, it isn’t going to catch on and succeed. You could probably go all the way back to the first books. I bet people said ‘why should you read when you could talk to other people?’ The point of reading is that you get to deeply immerse yourself in a person’s perspective. Right? Same thing with newspapers or phones or TVs. Soon it will be VR, I bet.” So, is Virtual Reality a “platform of tomorrow”? It is certainly a new communication platform and here’s some data to prove that VR is hotter than ever ( See Graph) We sincerely believe that the hottest topic for technology to discuss these days is ‘Virtual Reality’. So, we reached out to some VR experts and asked them their opinions about the future of VR. Here are the two questions we asked these VR experts: 1) What does VR look like in 2016? 2) What are the most popular use cases emerging for VR that’s changing the world? Without further ado, here are 14 VR experts on the future of VR: (Click Here to See What the Experts had to say...)