Trend 3: Games Consoles and VR

VR / Games Consoles

Games Consoles and AR are creating the enabling technologies for low cost Virtual Reality, being cheaper high quality head mounted displays, tracking based on movement recognition or video, and AR type recognition of the physical world.

One of the big disadvantages of VR is that the user is blind and vulnerable (and funny looking) in the real world. AR needs to understand where you are in the real world, overlaying this information into a VR world makes it much safer in a home environment. Buy still funny looking.

Expect VR to surface again in games consoles within 5 years or so.