What is Immersive Tech?
Basically, as a person who went into tech (as per professionally) much like 6–7 years ago, I’ve been so enveloped by the prospects of game development with a huge focus and dream of creating an open-world game just like GTA (let me just laugh small, cause basically, that’s what many new game devs still don’t understand, “trying to start too big” *chuckles*). I’ve been doing my thing, (game development) until 2019 when the Lord turned my head towards Virtual reality (which is a subsidiary of immersive technologies). It was an easy transition for me since I used the Unity3d game engine.
So, seeing VR (virtual reality) for the first time was crazy for me, like I mean, mind-blowing. I think if I could remember correctly, I saw the Dinosaur experience from the Oculus Dreamdeck found for free in the Oculus Store. This actually was an ice breaker for me in tech and made a hard tilt to virtual reality development.
From my findings, or rather, In My Opinion, immersive tech is simply an umbrella term for anything VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), and MR (mixed reality). More on the last in my later publications.
The immersive tech has really become one of the fastest and widely accepted techs (more so due to the pandemic). Wide adoption from different sectors, ranging from medicine to engineering, education, entertainment, housing, and real estate, etc. Its application is endless. Virtual reality is one tech that’s better experienced than explained. Augmented reality’s been used and has an everyday application (since it’s easily and readily available) in our everyday ‘selfies’. Yup! it’s been made quite popular by apps like Snapchat (those funny filters when you’re taking photos or videos), Pokemon Go, etc. While mixed reality *deep sigh* is the fusion of virtual and augmented realities with physical interactions. You can read more on it here
I just hope I’ve been able to tell you briefly what the whole immersive tech fuss was all about? Any questions? You can reach out to me on Twitter or in the comments just below your cursor or thumb whichever is your input device.