The future and impact of mixed reality
There is an enormous hype on everything you might call "immersive technologies" these days, that is virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and the artificial word invented by Microsoft mixed reality (MR). People outside tend to throw it all into one bucket: It's those weird people wearing even more weird things on their heads. And often this odd feeling may already nourish first reactions of rejection. I am not an exception here. For me personally, I find all those VR headsets frightening. I don't want to wear a black box on my head where I can't see the real world anymore. So I tend to shy away from VR generally. Last week I brought myself to wearing my first VR device: A simple DayDream together with a DayDream certified mobile. It was a blast, I really liked it. Still I prefer to see "what's around me" in the real world. This seems to be so important to me that I don't shy away from wearing the chunky HoloLens - because I can see