{"id":382,"date":"2007-12-30T18:17:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T17:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/state-of-vr\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T20:59:12","slug":"state-of-vr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/state-of-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[This article was published in 2006, is super outdated \ud83d\ude42 ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>********<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Back in the 90\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Virtual Reality was about to be a big revolution. Expectations were high and disappointment cruel. Nearly 20 years after, only a few people know what is possible nowadays with VR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The technology silently evolved in research labs and big companies, and now prototypes have evolved into commercially viable products. The professional VR market is very healthy and growing fast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Industrials are using VR systems to prototype their products and train their personnel; researchers are using it to understand and treat us; and the mass market is slowly rediscovering that playing with your body is the ultimate experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">With so much false ideas lying around the web, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high time to make a lucid point on where VR is now with a small state of the art. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>&#8220;As an image is worth a thousand words, a virtual environment is worth a thousand pictures!&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/a-definition-of-vr\/\">Part 0 &#8211; Definition<\/a> : What is VR ?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/state-of-vr\/state-of-vr-application\/\">Part 1 &#8211; Applications<\/a><\/strong> : Who is using VR to do what?<a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/state-of-vr\/state-of-vr-application\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/state-of-vr\/state-of-vr-devices\/\">Part 2 &#8211; Devices<\/a><\/strong> : Input devices, trackers, haptics, gloves &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/state-of-vr\/state-of-vr-devices\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/state-of-vr\/state-of-vr-displays\/\">Part 3 &#8211; Displays<\/a><\/strong> : Caves, HMDs &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; Consumer Hardware ( coming soon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">NB: I will only be talking about &#8220;immersive&#8221; VR, which excludes SecondLife and Quicktime VR. See <a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/what-is-not-vr\/\">What is (not) VR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/images\/vr\/cave.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This article was published in 2006, is super outdated \ud83d\ude42 ] ******** Introduction Back in the 90\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Virtual Reality was about to be a big revolution. Expectations were high and disappointment cruel. Nearly 20 years after, only a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}