Who knows Second Life? One of the first virtual reality platforms, even if, at that time, there were already virtual reality headsets and your avatar had to manipulate them with the keyboard and the mouse. Today, using the keyboard and mouse to play any type of game looks like almost the last century ...
Virtual reality will eventually become something as commonplace as mobile phones. Obviously, we're not going out on the street with virtual reality headsets, but we're going to change the way we interact on the network. Our moments of relaxation, which we currently use on a laptop or tablet to surf the net, will become moments of relaxation in a virtual world where we will have our own chair on which we will have arms connected, legs to be able to coordinate our movements in this new world. There are already gloves for interacting in the virtual world, like the famous scene from the movie Minority Report, where Tom Cruise uses his own hands to interact with holograms. Digital technology is growing exponentially and everything that now seems to be science fiction will come true sooner than we imagine.
Today, if you have to buy a product from an online store, you have to go to the category pages, then to the product page, and then add it to the cart. But do you think we are far from being able to enter the virtual stores, browse them, and take the products with our (virtual) hands? Obviously, the items will not be added to a basket as if you were in the supermarket in your neighborhood. The real experience will be enhanced in a virtual world. Purchasing products will be fun, automated customer service ...
The revolution began to democratize thanks to a project funded by Kickstarter and called Oculus. These were not the first virtual reality headsets, but the ones that had been most successful in getting themselves known. They have become the object to copy. And if the Chinese know how to do something, it is to copy and imitate the technological trends that are taking shape in the world.
Then Google Cardboard appeared. A simple foldable box, in which you can enter your mobile phone and by downloading the application, you can transform your mobile phone into a virtual reality headset. Obviously, the oculus in which the screen is integrated is not of the same quality and does not require any application to use the Google cardboard. And this is where the market starts to take shape, we have the high-end item to emulate called Oculus, and we have the most economical option called Google Cardboard. From there, the options and variants of Chinese manufacturers are almost endless. Let's make a list to see all the options.