Virtual reality may well be the next big thing, but only if it gets a lot smaller. Many of the brightest minds in the fast-growing technology say the easiest path to making VR mainstream — easily accessible and portable headsets — is to take advantage of the basic technology we already carry with us: our phones.
With a major improvement in technological quality — and a push from the deep-pocketed likes of Google and Facebook — mobile VR headsets are starting to catch up to expensive, wired PC-based rigs like Facebook’s Oculus and HTC’s Vive.
“How will people discover VR?” Clint Kisker, the president and co-founder of Madison Wells Media, a firm that produces and distributes film, TV, virtual and augmented reality, live events and digital video, told TheWrap.