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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way. Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality.

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A Brief History of VR

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Atari founded a lab for virtual reality research in 1982, but it closed down two short years later due to the North American video game crash of 1983. They created many VR devices including, the Data Glove, the EyePhone, and the Audio Sphere. Data glove and high-resolution goggles were used to view the experience.

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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

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The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. SUPERDATA research for what concerns the mobile gaming market. You can find the original text in Mandarin here. Introduction.