#unite2014

ArsTechnica is running a “virtual conference” they call UNITE2014, and the topic today was virtual reality.  The first of the pair of features is a nice rundown of how VR is or may soon impact several different industries.

Creators all over the world are looking beyond entertainment to adapting head-mounted displays for everything from psychotherapy, special-needs education, and space exploration to virtual luxury car test drives, virtual travel, and even VR movies. The well-worn idea of “gaming on the holodeck” may be driving much of the interest in virtual reality, but the technology’s non-gaming applications could be just as exciting in the long term.

The second article is a transcript of a conversation between Ars readers, a moderator, and a panel which includes two doctors using VR therapeutically, and a NASA scientist investigating it for interplanetary study.

In the second conversation, one point of interest I noticed was a response to the sentiment expressed in an article I posted a week ago about the erosion of ethics VR might encourage:

One thing on ethics though….I don’t worry about VR making people crazy or lose perception of real reality. I worry about people who are already impaired and the impact it could have. But in the end, the positives will way outweigh the negative.

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Going to Unite 2014? Us too! Let's meet up.

As you may know, we have been developing a number of projects using Unity 3D, including our interactive music making homage to Norman McLaren, Phonophotopia, and our soon-to-be-released diorama creation game Papercade.

Because we are on a never ending quest to keep learning here at Hololabs, Co-Founder and CTO Mike Wozniewski will be at Unite this year. If you will also be in Seattle we would love to hear from you.

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