Simulating and stimulating other senses, particularly haptic and olfaction, inthe technology of VR could enhance its quality of impressiveness. I think, overall, making such technologies more immersive would be the next step for VR, or AR.

Thank you for your answer.

I think other senses were a concern of VR since the beginning. For example, the Sensorama by Morton Heilig ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSINEBZNCks ) is a "machine" from the 1950's that offered a multisensorial experience: it has stereo sound, haptic feedback, wide-angle screen, and an odor producing mechanism.

Also, these expectations of simulating other senses were also addressed in the 1990s when VPL presented the Dataglove, and many other examples.

So, I agree with you that there were several steps into making VR/AR more immersive, but how this is a new expectation?

Also it can be interesting to think that if we're going into the direction of a "total immersion", deceiving all our senses at once, which possibilities will be enabled?

Human beings have specific apparatuses to conceive the world around; that is, what we call 'Reality'. However, the same world to an ant or a snake is much more different. In other words, their Reality is different than our Reality. So, if we can simulate all of human senses in VR, I think one plausible potential of VR in the future would be to also enhance the quality of our senses, as well. To be more specific, we can 'switch on/off' one sense and activate/deactivate other senses to experience various 'Realities'.

Needless to say, this technology is very interesting and I am looking forward to seeing its potentials in the near future. I am happy to be alive at this era! :)

Currently the "new future" is MR (Mixed Reality). The immersive technology is from another level.

Hello, dear Guilherme Nunes de Vasconcelos.

We are just now starting to realize the many possibilities of AR and VR. But anyone who finds the coolest opportunity to implement the technology will also get the most out of the market.

What do we have now? In Ukraine, there are already AR park with AR. Also, there are international museums and exhibitions.

A lot of interesting AR uses are realized in books, for example, in Alice in Wonderland or educational books. This is a completely different kind of storytelling.

In addition to this, this book can be read, rotated and viewed in a totally new way.

I think that AR will be more common thing in our live because this technology is cheaper that VR.

We are interesting in AR technology for education so I would like to share our work.

There are some our applications:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmatsokin.electro&hl=uk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmatsokin.vinci1&hl=uk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmatsokin.bridges&hl=uk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmatsokin.skyscrapers&hl=uk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmatsokin.kfk&hl=uk

With best regards,

Iryna Pakhomova

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XR is already here and is being widely used in private business. Car companies, retailers, furniture, they are all using and investing in XR. Take Ikea as an example, and how their AR app lets you see how a piece of furniture will look at your living room. On the healthcare side of the equation, computerized posturography, vestibular rehabilitation and several other application of XR are already being highly used and commercialized. The business reports for XR applications keeps growing and growing. Research has to pick up a little bit more, but it is not the future anymore, it is here. Most of the prototypes and ideas from the early 2000's are available nowadays and just getting better. I started developing environments for physical therapy in 2009 and the big change I saw was affordability and accuracy, all guided by the game industry. We still need more research though.

Dear Guilherme Nunes de Vasconcelos , here are the mixed reality trends for 2020.

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Nice Dear Fernando Vanderlinde Santos

The race continues between the world’s largest tech leaders and companies to see which one will prevail and power the next generation of tools, technologies and resources for manufacturing, healthcare, construction and other vertical-market applications. Central to this race are the technological advances that have been made in recent years with artificial intelligence (AI), and immersive mixed-reality technologies such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

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