How to bring Virtual Reality to every home
Renom Cisa, Aleix (2023)
2023
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023051110079
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Virtual Reality (VR) has been around for longer than most would expect and has gone through many development stages, but it has not yet entered the mainstream and it’s still not yet fully understood by the masses. This dissertation aims to create a high-level view of the Extended Reality (XR) industry as a whole while focusing on VR, then use that as a frame of reference to explore why is VR currently at the state that it is, and what could be done to bring it to the main-stream.
It starts by introducing the few concepts necessary to understand the rest of the study and ex-plains the qualitative nature of it and the why of that. It then uses the theoretical framework to explore the nature of current XR studies and reflects on the necessity to not fully adhere to aca-demic styles. After that it analyses in-depth the interviews to five professionals of the industry about the subject, and then for the empirical part, it summarises the history of VR until now, the perceived current situation, and explores speculations of possible futures. Then finally it lists the gathered reasons and views in the discussion, and wraps it all in the con-clusion together with the author’s learnings, possible biases, and next steps.
Some of the study’s findings are as follows: Due to past public experiences, VR is seen as not much else that an interesting experience to have once and never look at it again. Development lessons learned and progress are not properly shared or kept behind closed doors, which hurts anyone interested on entering the industry. AR/MR have higher chances to become mainstream before VR due to them being more accessible and having clearer use cases, some of them that already exist. VR hype is going down, but hope is still strong and progress is still very much happening.
It starts by introducing the few concepts necessary to understand the rest of the study and ex-plains the qualitative nature of it and the why of that. It then uses the theoretical framework to explore the nature of current XR studies and reflects on the necessity to not fully adhere to aca-demic styles. After that it analyses in-depth the interviews to five professionals of the industry about the subject, and then for the empirical part, it summarises the history of VR until now, the perceived current situation, and explores speculations of possible futures. Then finally it lists the gathered reasons and views in the discussion, and wraps it all in the con-clusion together with the author’s learnings, possible biases, and next steps.
Some of the study’s findings are as follows: Due to past public experiences, VR is seen as not much else that an interesting experience to have once and never look at it again. Development lessons learned and progress are not properly shared or kept behind closed doors, which hurts anyone interested on entering the industry. AR/MR have higher chances to become mainstream before VR due to them being more accessible and having clearer use cases, some of them that already exist. VR hype is going down, but hope is still strong and progress is still very much happening.