VR and Beyond: Powering the Immersive Computing Era

A number of futurists predict that VR will dramatically change education and the landscape of many industries ranging from retail to military, healthcare to entertainment, and gaming to fashion.

- Mark Papermaster

Technology has undergone a number of evolutionary phases in the past half century.

The first era was centralized computing, dominated by IBM mainframes. The next era was the start of personal computing as desktop computing went mainstream in the early 1980’s. The most current era is mobile computing, driven by the fact that processors and sensors are reducing in size and becoming increasingly embedded in a plethora of devices.

Today, society not only accepts and uses mobile technology, but it has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. From VR and smart homes, to autonomous cars – there seems to be no limit to what is possible and where the technology can be embedded.

BEYOND VIRTUAL REALITY

In January of this year, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, stated that we stand on the brink of a technological revolution. He said that the speed of current breakthroughs has no historical precedent and it’s expanding at an exponential rate.