ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: It’ll be a while yet before virtual reality beams us up, Scotty
Outside the gaming world, most of the excitement is focused on augmented reality, which lays digital information over a scene being viewed in the real world
If virtual reality is the next big thing, it's taking its time getting here. One of the most telling comments about its potential was by Piers Harding-Rolls, research director of global research consultancy IHS Markit, speaking at the IFA global press conference in Lisbon recently: "In 2017, VR is a niche technology. The market is going to grow, but it will still be a niche market by 2020." A few weeks later, on the other side of the world, Michael Dell, CEO of computing and storage giant Dell Technologies, told media at the Dell EMC World conference in Las Vegas that virtual reality was still in its early-adoption stage, and most early adopters tended to be gamers, but it had huge potential. "We're just at the beginning," he said. "It takes time for these things to occur. We see the use of VR and augmented reality in training, education and in medical applications. The problem is that VR today is game-like: it's not high resolution, and the frame rate not so great. "There's going t...
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