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In 1992, I visited the UK and spent a day at the London Trocadero<\/strong><\/a>, the entertainment sprawl that features shopping stores and cutting edge technological venues. At the time, a clean room manufacturing compact disks was all the rage; the operators were dressed in bunny suits replicating the shiny disks. There was also team laser tag to be enjoyed, if one didn’t mind looking like Tron.<\/p>\n

That’s when I also took my first taste of virtual reality and after putting on what resembled a welder’s mask, I took my game seat and battled three others in a game of gigantic robots.<\/p>\n

I think I invented spawn-killing, as that’s how I somehow managed to win that game of blocky graphics that allowed one to be immersed in a 270 degree field of view. The experience was well worth the hefty 3 GBP, when other video games cost 50 pence.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to the present, more than 20 years later.<\/p>\n

With the acquisition of Oculus<\/strong><\/a> – makers of virtual reality headsets and software – by Facebook, we’re finally living the anticipated technological changes of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

For $2 billion, Facebook is buying a good portion of a market yet untapped but slated to explode, as virtual environments become less of a spectacle and more of the daily norm in human interpersonal interaction.<\/p>\n

Not too long from now, we will be able to immerse into a 3D virtual environment of high graphical realism, performing tasks with precision and accuracy as if we were physically there.<\/p>\n

The prelude to this era is the projection of avatars in a similar environment, without the complete audiovisual immersion; the virtual tools available can still assist with the completion of tasks in an interactive manner.<\/p>\n

It’s about to happen in the domain world as well: Virtual Web Fair<\/strong><\/a>, an interactive conference that strives to bring together as many as 5,000 professionals from the domain<\/strong>, hosting<\/strong> and SEO<\/strong> industries, is slated for July 24th this year. It’s the type of extended domain conference that requires no hotel booking and no traveling; you can attend from the comfort of your own home.<\/p>\n

For a detailed report of this first immersion into the next generation of domain conferences, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twenty years from now, we will hopefully have the chance to review the exact advancements in technology and society, and to dream of a better, brighter future as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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