Great things are in store for virtual reality

Not only is the PlayStation VR2 headset getting lighter, it also supports eye-tracking.

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Virtual reality may not have exploded like some expected in the mid-2010s, but the VR market continues to grow. The market research company Grand View Research estimates global virtual reality sales in 2021 at 21.8 billion US dollars, in 2022 they are expected to rise to over 28 billion. Mind you, this number does not only refer to gaming, but all possible VR application areas.

But VR gaming should also get a decent boost.

New hardware plays an important role in this. Our experts discuss what we expect from the VR year 2022 and which hardware leap is imminent VR Podcast, recorded live at FYNG Tech.

Tech moderator Jakob talks to Sebastian Zeitz about the status and future of virtual reality GameProthe PlayStation VR 2 could already try. Also on board is Dominik Eskofier, who works at the medical VR company Eden worked as Head of Virtual Reality at Nvidia and ran a VR startup in San Francisco (which Michael Graf and Sebastian Stange even visited).

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Topics are of course new headsets such as the mixed reality glasses Meta Quest Pro, PlayStation VR 2 and the rumors about Valve Deckard, the successor to the HTC Vive, which according to a Valve patent should be designed for wireless gaming.

Keywords for the coming VR generation are also higher wearing comfort, lower weight, further increasing display quality and new types of lenses. We can also expect improved technologies such as eye tracking and dynamic foveated rendering.

And of course we talk about upcoming VR games and other areas of application – if someone from the healthcare sector is visiting with Dominic.

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