According to various tech experts, VR is the next big thing. VR means Virtual Reality, a computer-generated 3D environment allowing users to move freely inside it, create digital avatars, and talk to their friends within the spatial environment. Let’s look at some of the Virtual Reality trends in 2021.
Virtual Reality in Training
Training has been one of the critical areas after gaming, garnering a lot of attention, especially in the B2B environment. Virtual Reality trends help businesses in training their employees within a safe environment. For example, a worker can learn about oil rigs through a simulation. In a situation like COVID, where social distancing has become the norm, taking a worker in a real-life environment just for training purposes can prove risky and time-consuming.
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Moreover, replicating a real rig is next to impossible. In such cases, having a virtual simulation of the total oil rig can ensure that the worker is learning continuously, is motivated, and engaged. This can help them prepare themselves for real-life scenarios.
Hands for Tracking
We are seeing a lot of gloves coming into the market. These exoskeletons heighten the presence in the virtual world. But we also see scenarios where we don’t need gloves, and hand tracking is useful as an alternative, using HMD’s sensors, which tracks hand movement within the virtual space. Though it may not be that realistic, it is still sufficient to create an impression that you are fully immersed in the virtual world. In the future, we can see gloves like capabilities being added to hand tracking.
Eye-Tracking
HMD’s with Eye-Tracking capabilities can be revolutionary for the companies working in neuromarketing or research. Companies have been using traditional marketing methodologies to understand human behavior. But organizations can shortly track users’ gaze and eye movements with eye-tracking capabilities. What catches the attention of the users and what doesn’t?
VR AND AR = Mixed Reality
Many VR critics have been complaining about the very nature of VR. Which completely blocks the real world so that the user gets the best immersive experience; however, not everyone is comfortable with isolation and bumping into something worth noticing. But now we are witnessing a new VR headset with AR capabilities, which allows you to see the real world. With the easy switch on/off functionality, users can quickly move from VR to AR and vice versa.
Social VR
Like social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, Virtual Reality has brought in a revolutionary way for users to engage with each other – Social VR. Users can collaborate in a virtual space, watch Netflix, and play games together. In a COVID-like situation, collaboration is the only way to go forward and better than hanging out with friends virtually. What makes it different is that it creates a similar feeling of togetherness like you get in the real world.
Virtual Reality in Education
Just imagine a scenario where you can talk children on a virtual tour to the Pyramid of Giza or the Eiffel Tower? According to one of the recent researches, users tend to recall better when they are in VR. For ages, children have been learning using traditional methods like videos and textbooks. But VR goes one step ahead by allowing students to explore their subjects like never before. For example, with VR, users can travel through the heart, arteries, cells, and various parts of the body to understand human anatomy.