It’s Going to Be a Virtual Reality World at TED
[Philip Lelyveld comment: I expect full reports from my fellow TEDster!]
“There are speakers at TED who’ll be arguing that VR and augmented reality offer the chance of a dramatic shift in how we interact with computers and with the real world,” TED curator Chris Anderson told Re/code. “From digital to analog, from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, from observation to immersion, the demos they are working on are jaw-dropping. We can’t wait.”
Among those presenting is Meta, which has a new augmented reality technology that has Robert Scoble gushing. Scoble likens his experience with Meta to seeing the first Mac. The last time he got this overwhelmed, it was Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope that had him all weepy.
Speaking of Microsoft, HoloLens and Kinect creator Alex Kipman is speaking on Thursday morning.
Meta CEO Meron Gribetz said he sees 2016 as a big year for both augmented reality and virtual reality and said some people will begin to replace computer monitors with headsets.
“Our objective in our own offices is to replace our external monitors by the end of the year,” Gribetz said.
But Gribetz said the industry still faces the challenge of becoming a tool and a utility versus a toy and a novelty.
See the full story here: http://recode.net/2016/02/15/its-going-to-be-a-virtual-reality-world-at-ted/