Virtual Reality Is Already Changing How We Work and Communicate
Not that long ago, VR was consigned to video gaming technology, but it has quickly evolved into a tool for interpersonal connection.
The innovation can be mind-boggling. Just imagine lounging at home while socializing with your friends and business partners across the globe -- with the help of VR. This may sound unbelievable, but that is what VR has done for us.
1. The recording industry.
known in the psychoacoustic research community as head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) -- that happen naturally as sound wraps around the human head and is “shaped” by the outer and inner ears.
2. The medical industry.
surgery
3. The communication industry.
According to Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, “VR takes all the gadgets away, it takes all the multitasking away and you actually feel like you’re with someone. We call this social presence — you see their emotions, you see their gestures and it feels just like you’re in the room with them.
4. The education sector.
VR is enhancing classroom learning as well. Teachers are able to use pre-programmed avatars, or digital representations of the user, to create a virtual world -- a computer-based environment through which users interact with each other.
Abstract topics are now represented in ways that make them look simple and appealing to the students.
5. Taking prototyping to another level.
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