The future through the VR headset and the changes you might discover
The just launched Oculus headset marks a milestone in the virtual reality ecosystem and takes the world one step closer to the future. VR expands from video games to a mass market and the headset, named Quest, will be more then something to play with.
“The power of this idea is so significant that you almost have to believe it’s going to happen, it’s just a matter when”, said Hugo Barra, the vice president of virtual reality at Facebook.
Why a step closer to the future? Because Quest is designed to deliver high-end VR content without the need to be tethered to a computer or game console. The new headset won’t require a smartphone or a connection to a personal computer like its predecessor.
Mark Zuckerberg hopes to have 1 billion people using virtual reality
As #AI, virtual reality is breaking the boundaries of fun, games and theories and slowly becomes a part of everyday life. Even if 10 million sets were sold globally last year virtual and augmented reality, because they go hand in hand are still far from being used on a big scale. “The thing is, on the consumer side, people are waiting for magic to happen,” he said. “Magic doesn’t happen. It’s engineered.”
So what are we doing with virtual reality? Or maybe we should ask what virtual reality is doing for us? At the first edition of Codiax, Fabien Benetou from LucidWeb introduced us into the fundamentals of VR and at the 2nd edition we plan to take it even further.
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Until Codiax 2018 debuts on November 15 in Cluj-Napoca let’s take a look at the fields in which virtual reality is making an impact and will bring even bigger changes in the upcoming years.
Automotive industry
Major brands like Ford, Volvo and Hyundai are already using VR. Volvo started in 2014 with the Google Cardboard and now you can take a virtual tour of the new XC90 SUV. If at Volvo things are still on the fun side, at Ford cars are being designed with the help of VR. Engineers can quickly and easily improve the quality of early concepts by being immersed in the environment of the new car.
Cybersecurity
At DC Industries, a global company that helps future cyber warriors develop their skills, students are taking a virtual-reality training that simulates real-life cyber threats like corrupted files, missing documents, and compromised networks. “It’s very hard to demonstrate in a network what a threat actor can do and how he does it without being able to see him move,” said Rob Dodson, a senior instructor at DC Industries.
Education
It’s not easy to imagine it, but students from UCSF School of Dentistry can now zoom through 3-D teeth and get a better look at every part of the teeth.
“This is cutting-edge Silicon Valley technology applied in dentistry to make a big clinical impact,” said Kevin Montgomery, PhD, the CEO of eHuman Inc., the company that developed the Tooth Atlas digital anatomy learning tools. “It allows us to see tooth anatomy like no human ever has been able to do before.”
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Tourism
VR can have a giant effect in the tourism sector. People can now travel to places across the globe and not by using pictures and imaginations, but almost feeling they are there. Just think that you can visit the Kennedy Space Center from a beach in Greece. More than that VR can be used to provide guided tours for visitors across different attractions.
Tourism in Canada’s British Columbia is being promoted with the help of “Wild Within”, a VR experience that takes the users through a rainforest, to the coastline or up on a mountain.
Health
As in any field, virtual reality can have several uses in the health department. For example, a virtual reality medical company developed an app called VRHealth. This is being used for traumatic brain injuries to evaluate athletes after concussions. They are asked to play a virtual game in which they’re tasked with matching boxing gloves to a set of lights that pops up in front of them. Their response times, errors and progress are measured and analysed in real time.
Maybe one of the first uses of VR in this sector was the ability to allow a person to face their fears in a safe virtual environment. Therapists got the chance to make the patients try public speaking or seating in a place and talk them through the experience.
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