The History of the Future – HarperCollins

There is an easy seductiveness to stories that cast a technology as brand-new, or at the very least that don’t belabor long, complicated histories. Seen this way, the future is a space of reinvention and possibility, rather than something intimately connected to our present and our past. But histories are more than just backstories. They are backbo

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• Trae is a VR enthusiast and a voracious reader 


• Most of the future VR technology is limited by physics


• There is basic science research that must advance before Ready-Player-One-type VR technology will exist 


• However, it is possible to build single-purpose VR devices today that do really cool things


• Trae wanted to build a VR dev

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Consequently, products for those invested in the future of the metaverse will become increasingly popular (VR hoverboards, digital sneakers, and more) as non-gaming platforms adopt the infrastructure of games, from identity to narrative to game-based mechanisms for achieving social status.

First, I believe VR will be a major computing platform, as or more significant than the phone and PC were. Facebook should sell about 10 million Oculus Quests this year. The headset will continue to get smaller, lighter, higher res, more powerful, and with many more and better apps. This will drive exponential growth the same way it did with PCs an... See more

Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated in media.