VR/AR in dating and social networking

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc co-founder and CEO
– Virtual reality is the perfect machine of total empathy. It literally makes it possible to be in someone’s place.

Chris Milk, VR-producer, Within and Lytro CEO
– Virtual and additional reality are going to be the most social platforms in history.

3 ways of how to use VR and AR

Embedded tips: «notifications and info display»

Any infomation can be embedded in real or virtual world’s objects. It can be a pop-up message or an instruction note which “open up” when interacting with a video. For example, you can embed an interactive note in the video that will deliver flavor characteristics, compatibility, country and history of wine origin shown on the manufacturer’s promo video. And most importantly – to post information about the nearest points of sale or a link to a store.

Additional reality interfaces

The example is an application that projects a keyboard on the table surface. It will allow a user to quickly and conveniently type large texts without using a computer. This is a virtual poker canvas that can similarly be displayed on any surface, does not take up space in the bag and allows you to start the game at any time.

Addition of real objects

Virtual layers are superimposed on real objects that get cought into the camera lens. Today these are masks in “Stories”, Pokémon, AR art and furniture from Ikea which you can “try on” without buying.

Search trends in Google by the word “VR” from 2015 till today

“The VR industry is growing at a fast pace, with revenues from virtual reality hardware and software projected to increase from 3.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to more than 40 billion U.S. dollars by 2020

“By 2016 there were at least 230 companies developing VR-related products. Facebook has 400 employees focused on VR development; Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Sony and Samsung all had dedicated AR and VR groups”