What’s Next?

In Alex Aharonov’s blog post titled “What’s Next for Augmented and Virtual Reality Technology?” He immediately tells you that VR is by no means new. Virtual reality was applied for aircraft operators in the military as far back as 30 years ago. This is something I don’t believe many people are aware of, as with many things the government got to VR first. This isn’t by any means a bad thing, if anything why not let a new technology be tested by an entity with more money than they’ll need in order to make it succeed.

Virtual reality’s main issue is the cost of improving it. Alex stated this as the reason VR hadn’t made it to the mainstream until recently. Virtual reality’s close relative augmented reality kicked off in a very odd way. “Pokémon Go successfully validated the consumer mass adoption of augmented reality (Aharonov,2018).” This is Alex stating that a phone game was the general populations first real exposure to anything like virtual reality.

Virtual reality has almost limitless possibilities. Alex touched on this in many ways, however, the way that surprised me most was its use in Jerusalem. VR is used in Jerusalem to show tourists what the city may have looked like five-thousand years ago. This notion is beyond our imagination. Ideologically we could use VR to restore ancient civilizations for viewing purposes. What could be next? Machu Picchu, maybe a Mayan city, maybe even ancient Egyptian architecture. Why even stop there? Before long we may be able to recreate our entire planet with what evidence we have and see things we would otherwise never be able to.

Aharonov, A. (2018, May 2). What’s Next for Augmented and Virtual Reality Technology? [Web log post]. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https://medium.com/iotforall/whats-next-foraugmented-and-virtual-reality-technology-83fc154f467b