GOAL
Share some insights about how a big challenge like image-based VR takes years of development, how the challenges evolve, and how some people stick it out and others move on to related challenges
REFLECTION
Computation
At present our computational ability has grown exponentially over the last decade. This has afforded VR developers more freedom in created more immersive environments.
Adoption
Christopher Mims write about the lackluster evolution of VR in 2010. Mims mentions that the primary reason VR has not already been adopted by the general public was ‘lag’ according to MIT Media Lab founder, Nicholas Negroponte.
RESOURCES
What happened to VR – Christopher Mims
Virtual Reality: Oxymoron or Pleonasm? – Nicholas Negroponte
TED Talk on Microsoft / U Washington’s “Photosynth” (2007):
Blaise Agüera y Arcas MS to Google
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NQ8iI3cAAAAJ&hl=en
Noah Snavely U Washington to Google / Cornell U
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Db4BCX8AAAAJ&hl=en
Steve Seitz U Washington to Google to U Washington
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-6cOYcYAAAAJ&hl=en
Rick Szeliski MS to Facebook
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_u1jHQAAAAJ&hl=en