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Virtual Reality Will Not Replay the 3D Debacle

Soumen Ganguly | July 31, 2016

In the mid-2000s, everyone was talking about 3D, the “next big thing” in video that would transform the way we consumed TV and movies, even how we communicated. It required people to buy expensive new gadgets and wear goofy eyewear, but we were told that consumers would flock to this new three-dimensional world.
Unless you’re James Cameron, the Hollywood director whose movies have made billions of dollars thanks to that technology, you likely missed the entire 3D revolution.

(Tech Industry Heavyweights Debate the Future of VR at AMD ‘VR Advisory Council’. Ki;u 3. 2015) Source: http://www.roadtovr.com/tech-industry-heavyweights-debate-the-future-of-vr-at-amd-vr-advisory-council/

"[Infographic] Is Virtual Reality Technology the Future of Work? September 18, 2014" Source: http://blog.pgi.com/2014/09/infographic-virtual-reality-workplace/

<more at https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/31/virtual-reality-will-not-replay-the-3d-debacle/; related articles and links: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/10/still-a-virtual-reality-skeptic-heres-why-you-shouldnt-be/ (Still a virtual reality skeptic? Here’s why you shouldn’t be. July 10, 2016) and http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/how-vr-can-avoid-the-fate-of-3d-tv (Lessons from CES: How VR Can Avoid the Fate of 3D TV. January 8, 2016)>