The wild ideas of tech enthusiasts
If a technology is currently in the development phase, it will soon arrive at a point where it is at the top of the hype cycle, and this is where early adopters, the media, tech enthusiasts and companies start coming up with an enormous bandwidth of potential use cases for precisely this technology. The immersive technologies augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR, VR and MR) have been at this point for some time now. And, there are a huge number of ideas about what can actually be implemented with these technologies – from shopping experiences, where clothing can be tried on in virtual reality, to operations, where the doctor and patient can be on different continents thanks to immersive technologies.