Organizing a young team of photographers and computer-savvy experts, the executive oversaw the 360-degree imagery that would make visiting each virtual stand a lifelike experience.
Still, "what is important is that the technology allows us, even now, to provide a three-dimensional, lifelike experience that was never available before," Ms. Meredith said.
Leverage a connected array of large high-resolution displays inside a room to alter your perceived reality, and VR is transformed into a lifelike experience that begins to approach the realm of Star Trek's "Holodeck".
VR, with its ability to immerse the user in a rich, lifelike experience, offers one possible passageway to help long-established financial institutions fight back against the erosion of their core, wage-earning customer base.
All credit to the BBC for spearheading broadcast VR through its Commonwealth Games experiment, but the end result was far from perfect and illustrates how we need to improve resolution and bandwidth in order to deliver truly lifelike VR experiences.
Strapping on a VR headset will catapult the user into a new realm of lifelike entertainment experiences that will seem believable — and very real, within seconds of putting them on.
"With consumers demanding more lifelike viewing experiences, the trend to offer such devices makes perfect sense, especially considering the increase in rich content that is being made available on smartphones".
Rolocule Games is already testing a working version of an update for Bowling Central, one of its games designed with AirPlay streaming from an iPad or iPhone to your Apple TV-connected display, that lets you swing your arm (with Apple Watch attached) to provide lifelike bowling experiences.
The HMD responds to the motion and rotation of the user's head and provides a lifelike lighting experience in game scenes.
