It only makes sense for VR to expand into the educational system as well. The technology is used to educate and train individuals in the military, law enforcement, and research fields. Still, VR is more immersive and would likely keep the students focused on the subject at hand. Augmented reality would actually be a better platform as we’ve seen with the applications displayed with the Microsoft HoloLens headset thus far. One interesting aspect about his 2017 predictions is that he believes education will become a major VR growth driver.
There’s also those pesky bathroom and eating issues that can get in the way. For next year, he believes that someone will actually spend 30 days within a virtual environment nonstop, which is a bit outlandish given that people have dropped dead from nonstop gaming marathons lasting 72 hours or more. This week during the Unity Vision Summit in Beijing, HTC’s China regional president of the Vive division, Alvin Wang Graylin, jumped on stage and provided 10 VR/AR-related predictions for 2017, and 10 predictions for 2018.
