Technology tracked by 311 Institute
The future of Virtual Reality
- 123articles
- 2016first covered
- 6 Sep 2024latest update
- 5linked technologies
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Virtual Reality goes mainstream around 2032
Virtual Reality sits in the User Interfaces sector of the 311 Emerging Technology Starburst, which tracks 1,073 technologies to 2075. The timeline shows when it and the technologies most often reported alongside it reach the mainstream.
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- Google’s AI generated DOOM frame by frame without a game engineVirtual worlds
- The Apple Vision helps a blind man see againVirtual worlds
- New Walt Disney Holotiles let crowds walk around in VR while at homeVirtual worlds
- Meta now has an AI that can read your mind and draw your thoughtsAI and intelligence
- Zuckerberg’s new life-like avatars laugh off the old criticsVirtual worlds
- OMA3 offers users a way to easily travel between Metaverse worldsConnected society
- Accenture on boarded over 150,000 new hires in the MetaverseVirtual worlds
- Virtual reality helps bell Helicopter design new aircraft 90 percent fasterVirtual worlds
- Luma AI brings photo realistic virtual worlds closer to realityVirtual worlds
- In a virtual first virtual offices in New York are being sold as NFTsVirtual worlds
- This VR gadget lets you feel spiders crawling all over your faceVirtual worlds
- Criminals are eyeing up the metaverse already and planning chaosSecurity and privacy
- Barbados opens the world’s first recognised sovereign embassy in the metaverseVirtual worlds
- Zaha Hadid architects lay out plans for a giant libertarian city in the metaverseVirtual worlds
- Digital design studio The Fabricant lets everyone become a Metaverse fashion designerVirtual worlds
- Queen Mary university students become the first to have lectures in the MetaverseVirtual worlds
- Over 7 million people have visited Nike’s metaverse store as digital sales soarVirtual worlds
- REK’s phydigital sports arenas prove the future of sports is mixed realityVirtual worlds
- JPMorgan opens the world’s first bank branch in the MetaverseVirtual worlds
- New VR boots finally let users walk forever in virtual reality for realVirtual worlds
- Anzu teams up with Roblox creators to bring ads to the MetaverseVirtual worlds
- Walmart patents show it’s mulling entering the Metaverse with own NFTs and cryptoVirtual worlds
- Microsoft becomes the first major tech company to hold a VR keynote sessionVirtual worlds
- In a world first doctors use VR to help parents visualise their child’s surgeryVirtual worlds
- Accenture created a metaverse “Nth Floor” to bring remote teams together during the pandemicVirtual worlds
- Seoul to become the world’s first Metaverse cityVirtual worlds
- HTC unveil their latest slimline VR glasses to conquer the MetaverseVirtual worlds
- Working in the Metaverse gets closer as Microsoft goes all inVirtual worlds
- Facebook unveils infinite Office its futuristic virtual reality office conceptVirtual worlds
- Toyota unveils Woven City, tech utopia and the world’s first programmable cityConnected society
- 5G connected ambulance lets remote clinicians direct paramedics in real time using hapticsVirtual worlds
- With over 4,200 virtual shops Hong Kongs largest virtual mall eyes expansionVirtual worlds
- The Future of the Customer Journey | Valmet, EMEA | Matthew Griffin | Futurist Keynote SpeakerArticles
- Volumetric video startup turns 2D video streams into interactive 3D contentVirtual worlds
- Smelling is believing as odour vision comes to VR headsetsVirtual worlds
- BMW’s virtual factory uses AI and simulation to design better next gen factoriesVirtual worlds
- Mother brings her daughter back from the dead in Virtual RealityVirtual worlds
- Virtual reality treatment helps hospital patients overcome chronic painVirtual worlds
- Sony bets big on virtual concerts and launches a virtual star at CES 2021Virtual worlds
- Fable Studio’s interactive virtual beings want to have a relationship with youVirtual worlds
- Stunning virtual reality sets are helping Hollywood re-invent movie makingVirtual worlds
- Canadian gamers made an intriguing dynamic VR game with interactive AI charactersVirtual worlds
- Riot built the world’s most awesome mixed reality E-Sports stage using Mandalorian techVirtual worlds
- USAF experiments with neurotraining to cut pilot training times in halfBiotech and enhanced humans
- Charity fundraisers go virtual as first Ready Player Golf tournament tees offVirtual worlds
- Revolutionary flat nano-thin cameras edge closer to mass productionIndustry and manufacturing
- Disney Imagineers show off their amazing HolodeckVirtual worlds
- Facebook embraces holographics to create its first VR glasses prototypeVirtual worlds
- Cameras that see round corners just got a major megapixel upgradeEarth and energy
- Brain reading gadgets get closer after researchers pack a BMI interface into a pair of glassesBiotech and enhanced humans
- Japanese researchers reveal a new gadget that lets people taste virtual foodVirtual worlds
- Eight360 unveil the “Spinning ball of Death,” a new crazy immersive VR simulatorVirtual worlds
- A record breaking 12 million people watched Travis Scott’s virtual Fortnite concertVirtual worlds
- Film making and game making collide, behind the scenes of Disney’s “The Mandalorian”Virtual worlds
- Intel shows off it’s latest immersive 360 video sports technologyVirtual worlds
- Panasonic unveil their cool new ultra lightweight Morpheus inspired VR glassesVirtual worlds
- Bosch unveil augmented reality glasses that shoot lasers into your eyeballsVirtual worlds
- Audi spin out Holoride unveils its amazing in car VR experienceVirtual worlds
- Japan’s newest digital pop stars blur the line between virtual and realityAI and intelligence
- Formula E’s new E-Sports “ghosting” app lets gamers race real drivers in real timeVirtual worlds
- A new VR synthetic skin brings feelings to gaming and prostheticsVirtual worlds
- Microsoft DreamWalker turns your daily commute into a VR experienceVirtual worlds
- Nvidia demos cloud based rendering to create high quality streamed AR experiencesVirtual worlds
- Facebook’s DeepFovea tool reduces VR rendering resources by upto 99 percentVirtual worlds
- IBM trials virtual classroom to help students master Chinese fasterVirtual worlds
- The Future of Superyacht Design | Superyacht News, London | Matthew Griffin | Futurist Keynote SpeakerArticles
- The Future of Sport 2030 | Decathlon, France | Matthew Griffin | Sports and Wellness Keynote SpeakerArticles
- Magnetic human skin breakthrough could lead to new types of wearablesBiotech and enhanced humans
- Today’s virtual bloggers and influencers are dumb, AI will change thatAI and intelligence
- Samsung’s impressive AI turns video into digitally rendered VR worldsAI and intelligence
- Nvidia creates the world’s first video game demo using AI generated graphicsAI and intelligence
- Featured Futurist: Samsung KX50, The Future in FocusArticles
- Nvidia and MIT open source an AI that creates crazy good synthetic videosAI and intelligence
- Steppingstone’s electromagnetic floor lets VR users walk real miles in their own roomsVirtual worlds
- Featured Futurist: How combining technologies exponentially impacts the future, T-MobileArticles
- Teslasuit’s haptic bodysuit lets VR users experience full body immersionVirtual worlds
- Virtual reality is helping scientists discover new drugs fasterVirtual worlds
- Amazon trained their delivery bot Scout in the virtual world so it could handle the real oneVirtual worlds
- Disney’s latest VR jacket lets gamers “feel the force”Virtual worlds
- New military virtual reality system lets operators control swarms of dronesVirtual worlds
- Amazing ray tracing mod pack makes Minecraft look stunningAI and intelligence
- Nanoscale Metalenses put Virtual Reality in perfect focus, and eliminate headsetsVirtual worlds
- Qualcomm releases its first WiGig chipsets to push WiFi to gigabit speedsConnected society
- Facebook 3D photos sources depth information straight from your cameraAI and intelligence
- Creative AI’s have learnt how to create their own video gamesAI and intelligence
- Nvidia unveiled a new AI engine that renders virtual world’s in real timeVirtual worlds
- Virtual reality headsets tune into users brainwaves to train people fasterVirtual worlds
- Death isn’t forever, companies build digital avatars so people can “live on after death”Virtual worlds
- New glasses will beam augmented and virtual reality directly into your eyesVirtual worlds
- BAE is developing a “wearable” cockpit for fighter jetsVirtual worlds
- Windows are the perfect lens-less cameras for AI and VR headsetsAI and intelligence
- Virtual reality without the headset, US startup debuts the “Looking Glass”Virtual worlds
- Roborace’s fully autonomous race car prepares to pound the track at FoSTransport and mobility
- Plexus VR gloves give users fine grained control of their VR environmentsVirtual worlds
- CGI “Virtual influencers” on Instagram battle it out in public, snag real ad cashVirtual worlds
- Adapt or Die | Cherwell, Reading | Matthew Griffin | Disruption Keynote SpeakerArticles
- The Future of Communities | Castleton, Milton Keynes | Matthew Griffin | Futurist Keynote SpeakerArticles
- Amazon continues to branch out with Augmented RealityVirtual worlds
- 3 Ways the 5G Revolution Will Transform the Internet of ThingsConnected society
- Virtual reality lets cyber security experts patrol their networks Matrix styleSecurity and privacy
- Brain controlled Virtual Reality comes to the HTC ViveVirtual worlds
- The Future of Money and Gaming | iGaming, Amsterdam | Matthew Griffin | Gaming Keynote SpeakerArticles
- Apple gears up to make its own GPU’sComputing
- Facebook launches itself into developing brain reading techConnected society
- Google and HTC are developing invisible VR headsetsVirtual worlds
- New virtual reality project lets doctors fly through cancers to save livesVirtual worlds
- Point. Click. Create your own 3D avatar and put yourself in the gameVirtual worlds
- Researchers create human VR avatars with three arms to improve productivityVirtual worlds
- Virtual reality plays its role in convicting Nazi SS guards who killed millionsVirtual worlds
- Get ready to experience millions of new, immersive worldsVirtual worlds
- MIT breakthrough lets virtual reality gamers cut the chordVirtual worlds
- Facebooks new app gives your smartphone AI super powersAI and intelligence
- Jurors will soon be able to walk through crime scenes in virtual realityVirtual worlds
- Thomas Cook lets you experience your holiday in virtual reality before you buyVirtual worlds
- Get a drones-eye view with this new headsetVirtual worlds
- World first as virtual reality helps legally blind man see for the first timeBiotech and enhanced humans
- Oculus’ virtual reality film Henry wins an EmmyVirtual worlds
- Apple, emerging technology and the iPhone that could beOpinion
- Alibaba trials virtual reality payments for VR mallsVirtual worlds
- Gourmet 3D printed food restaurant pops up in LondonIndustry and manufacturing
- Nvidia’s new VR HQ is a peak into the workplace of 2025Virtual worlds
- The future of jobs and educationOpinion
- The future of Media and EntertainmentOpinion
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