Painting in virtual reality
While watching "The Triumph of the Nerds", I couldn't help but notice that the introduction of new technologies always brought an explosion of new ideas and creations, many of which changed the course of human history. In my previous blog post, I explored a little bit the topic of Virtual Reality, on how in the near future I think that this new technology is going to greatly affect the lives of everyone. Now, I ask myself: who is going to benefit from this new technology? Who are the people that are going to exploit this new technology? What kind of new creations are we going to see spring from it? What kind of new experiences are we going to be able to have? The article linked in this blog post shows one of the many ways in which VR is already igniting an explosion of creativity. I strongly believe that with VR, just like the video shows in the link, that new ways to express ourselves will emerge and also new ways to create content that can touch human lives in way that no other technology can do right now. This is very exciting to think about, and it is even more exciting to know that any software developer that so desires can begin to contribute and tinker with this new technology right now. Thinking about this, I can't help but wonder what the world will be like in a few couple years.
I had a similar feeling a year or so ago when Larry Page was speaking at Google IO. He was talking about how it's amazing that computers are so fast, yet the internet is so slow. He continued to talk about how if someday (Google Fiber being a stepping stone) computers could communicate over the network as fast as you can read from your hard drive -- having no latency -- then the opportunity to innovate would be incredible. That's his vision, and although it sounds a little crazy, so does a billion dollar internet search company in the 80s. His enthusiasm makes me excited to see what comes next.
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