The following year, Brainstorm (starring Christopher Walken) offered a more realistic but less family-friendly vision of virtual reality. The 1990s were a fertile time for virtual reality in science fiction: The Lawnmower Man, Johnny Mnemonic and Virtuosity brought diverse interpretations of the technology to cinemas.
Newer – and more successful – films include “Avatar” and “Inception.”
These very different films have one thing in common: the idea that the line between virtual reality and actual reality eventually becomes blurred. Are the characters experiencing reality or a virtual reality - and when is the point reached where it no longer makes a difference?
The reality putting on giant headsets and managing projects in a virtual world, augmented reality - the little sister of virtual reality - is well on its way into our everyday lives through apps like Snapchat, Giphy World and Ikea Place .
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016 in Orlando, Daryl Plummer of Gartner predicted that in the qatar telegram data near future, “digital experience and engagement will drive people to nonstop virtual interactions.”
What does this mean? Some things are easy to imagine, like going to a grocery store where the prices of each product are displayed digitally, either on your smartphone screen, through whose camera you look at the shelves, or through a lightweight headset (like Google Glass) with a head-up display .