This week, Datamation offered an overview of the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR) conference. The overall theme was upbeat.
A key question with which industry insiders must deal is the relationship between virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR). It’s a bit difficult because the two overlap but are distinctly different in terms of what they offer users, use cases and business models. Datamation’s David Needle found that SVVR creator Karl Krantz thinks that the two are far different:
The SVVR conference had only a few augmented reality exhibits. Krantz says he’s kept SVVR “hyper-focused on VR” because a lot of other conferences do both, but he thinks AR is a very different community, that tends to be more conservative and backed by big companies, where VR is more bottom up and accessible as evidenced by the many Kickstarter VR projects.
Krantz told Needle that the two eventually will merge, but in the interim VR will outpace AR. The latter, he said, is more difficult and VR is evolving more quickly.
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