Skip to main content

Microsoft Researchers Are Working on Multi-Person Virtual Reality

  • October 12, 2015
  • 1 reply
  • 12 views

Dermot7
Gold VIP
Forum|alt.badge.img+3
Hmmm...doubt I'll be trying it 😃 How 'bout beta testing this?    
 
 
Augmented or mixed reality, which renders virtual images in a view of the real world, can be spectacular to experience. But it may be even more fun when you bring a friend.
Researchers in the Microsoft lab of Jaron Lanier are experimenting with multi-person augmented reality, and the results of their work could help shape the way the technology is commercialized and used. Lanier was a pioneer of virtual and augmented, or mixed, reality in the 1980s.   
 
   http://www.technologyreview.com/news/542341/microsoft-researchers-are-working-on-multi-person-virtual-reality/

1 reply

Baldrick
Gold VIP
  • Gold VIP
  • October 13, 2015
Well, to be honest I suspect that it is the way to go...I mean, we already have collaborative functionality in such things as Office 2016 (just released) as well as the concept of WebEx conference calls with collaborative wipeboaridng, etc., so why not the next step which would be virtual conferencing/meetings...as long as the supporting software is up to it/allows for it.
 
But as you say, Dermot, beta testing something like that could be interesting, nay, even fun.
 
Baldrick