2/5/2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:10 PM | Grand Peninsula D

The Trojan Horses of Virtual Reality

Author(s)

Bjorn Sommer | Royal College of Art

Abstract

Virtual Reality technologies are on the rise! Commercial Head-mounted Display Devices made VR applications affordable and available to a wide user range. Still, VR companies are far from being satisfied with the market penetration of their VR devices and related software. VR companies and VR enthusiasts are waiting for VR to become omnipresent!

But what if everything is different? What, if VR has already taken over our world – we just are not aware of this fact?

In this essay, I will discuss the Trojan Horses of Virtual Reality – those technologies and approaches, which started taking over our life years ago, we just do not acknowledge this factum.

In this essay I will argue that Virtual Reality is already part of our daily life and that the still pending takeover of VR technologies will only be the final casing stone on top of the pyramid.