The future of virtual reality

I just tries VR glasses for my SGS6 and I am hooked. So with this post I want to share my vision about the future of VR.

1. Multi camera mobile phones. The next generation mobile phones will come with two (or more) cameras to be able to do proper stereoscopic augmented reality. There might even be cameras to enhance vision, e.g. by sensor for other wavelengths, other dynamic range, and so on.

2. One or two generations further away there will be displays where it will be possible to control radiation angle of the different pixels of the screen.  This will provide the last piece for a complete visual experience: depth of field.

3. Screen resolution will one way or another increase some factor 10 or so. This is really required to provide the right visual experience.

4. Around 2 generations away the applications will explode. Games is really not the main thing. Conferencing (all participants in the same augmented room), replacing a monitor (complete privacy, enormous screens (virtual ones that is), education, ... everything really!

So, the phones will adapt to the VR requirements and some time in the future will they merge and we finaly get to Google glas, but much better. Sort of what hapend for the Apple Newton and smart phones.