Against the backdrop of movies such as Ready Player One which predict that VR will be all consuming for the future of humanity, and we will all live in a digital space – Lucasfilm employee, Mohen Leo, has given his vision of what our VR future may be to Rolling Stone.
According to Mohen Leo, the director of content and platform strategy at Lucasfilm division ILMxLAB, our VR future will involve more than just one giant Matrix-like universe. During a panel at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Leo said that one reason why this VR-as-escapism theme is so common is because we “tend to consider VR in isolation.”
“When you look at truly transformative shifts in technology and culture, they often don’t stem from a single technological advancement, but from the clash of multiple — at first seemingly unrelated — breakthroughs that then combine into a catalyst for change,” he added.
Leo pointed to video filters as an example of this clash. The reason they’re in our phones now is because of portable computing, miniaturized cameras, multi-touch screens, real-time rendering, face recognition software, and more. So, he argued, it’s too reductive to focus on VR in a vacuum when making predictions. Leo imagines a world where we can interact with the same virtual universe through different devices — true cross-platform gameplay across phones, tablets, consoles, and VR headsets.
For the full fascinating piece take the source link below to Rolling Stone’s article with Leo.
