10 Industries which will be changed for Good because of VR

Virtual reality is mostly known for immersive gaming but with the progress of the technology, it is fast becoming the most promising horizon for other industries as well. It is now being incorporated across many industries in different degrees.

Actually, VR holds a really amazing range of possibilities to offer gadgets and interfaces capable of transforming the way we interact with the world outside. Let us have a brief look at the definition of virtual reality and how does it work before introducing the uses of VR in various industries.

What is Virtual Reality?

Virtual reality refers to a simulated three-dimensional reality generated by the computers that allow people to enjoy the immersive experience while performing or going through a practice or just entertaining.

How does VR work?

To talk about how VR works, we must refer to the wearable technologies, especially VR headsets that began by offering immersive gaming experience to the gamers. Actually, a simulated digital reality through identical visual and sound effects is created to allow having a totally immersive experience that comes closest to the reality. Such immersive experience can be offered by a dedicated VR headset, an app or a game.

Industries which would be changed

Here we are going to introduce 10 different industries that are presently making use of virtual reality and the way they are adding value to our life.

1. Construction and real estate

VR is increasingly becoming popular to visualize properties remotely to buyers. Virtual reality allows people getting a real life experience of a property without visiting the property in real life. With a high capacity 360-degree camera, the property sellers can capture video and then with the help of the software can stitch the clippings to offer immersive 360-degree videos.

2. Automobile

Car manufacturers use VR technology for high precision manufacturing and testing of their vehicles. Ford uses virtual reality for designing cars before building the physical prototype. VR headsets like Oculus Rift are used to walk around and sit inside the car for the sake assessing the customer experience.

3. Education

In training, VR is already being used extensively. For training to engineers to surgeons to students of lab environments, VR is now being used by institutions and modern workplaces. Often for real site exploration VR is being used.

In higher education also VR is increasingly becoming common. Western University in Pomona of California introduced a virtual reality enabled learning center for healthcare students just less than a year ago. The VR training is well equipped to offer training based on 3D video of dissection.

4. Medical

Healthcare industry embraced virtual reality more rigorously than other industries. VR is being used by psychiatrists for providing cognitive behavior therapy to certain patients. There are other findings cited by some eminent medical journals. Recently, Medical journal Frontiers in Neuroscience depicted the effectiveness of virtual reality in treating the phantom limb pain of certain people who are victim to this condition after losing their limbs.

5. Defence

One of the principal reasons U.S. military is considered a military superpower is a technological advancement in their warfare. Well, they incorporated virtual-reality simulators for the express purpose of training soldiers for fighting in various adverse conditions. Some non-commercial game versions are specially prepared for the army men to get trained to combat.

6. Manufacturing/production

In manufacturing sectors, VR is already popular to offer simulated reality for assessing the design glitches and addressing them. Besides, the assessing of design to producing virtual prototypes are making use of VR technology to ascertain the highest precision and output. In no way, you can sit inside a car while the production is continuing except by using VR. But such immersive experience helps in assessing the design and perfecting it.

7. Sports

The future of sports is VR training. Yes, thanks to VR training unleashed through Google Glass and few other wearable devices the training and practice sessions in different sports have already received an overhaul. Yes, VR allows you to participate in an original match situation and make use of your skills.

8. Fitness

Suppose, you are cycling up the road in a steep climb and from all sides the terrain is encircled by snow covered peaks. You are paddling hard and sweats are making your shirt wet. Well, such an immersive experience is possible in a VR-enabled gym. Already a gym located on the 14th floor of a skyscraper in downtown Hong Kong has introduced this. This new fitness practice with VR environment already grabbed an interesting name called Immersive Fitness.

9. Tourism

If I can cycle in a steep Himalayan road surrounded by snow peaks thanks to a VR environment, why the same thing cannot be provided to tourists? Obviously, no traveler would like to compromise his travel with a VR experience. But what about getting a near-real feeling of the place or the hotel or the streets long before gets in the flight? Well, VR is extensively being used these days to offer a first-hand experience of the hotel rooms, locations or the travel experience as a whole.

10. Fashion

Finally, it is the fashion industry that in recent times got quite an overhaul with latest technologies. After digital shirts and skirts with a smart display, this time, the catwalks are going to be virtual. Fashion industry today is incorporating VR in a wide range of ways like VR software enabled virtual fashion stores, virtual 3D avatars for designing clothes, virtual fashion show and digital 3D portfolio of fashion garments.

The Bottom Line

These are some of the industries and varied situations where the boundaries between reality and digital reality over high tech interface are increasingly getting blurred. From fashion catwalk to automobile manufacturing and design to medical training to real estate business to travel industry, virtual reality is fast transforming the way businesses interact with customers.