Biosensors boost the market prospects of VR technologies

7th March 2017

Alice Matthews

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Thanks to the rapid growth of the Virtual Reality (VR) market, substantial private and federal investments is being provided to innovative start-ups, mostly in the areas of video, services and solutions, games and apps. With technological advances and improvements in user experience, VR will become more ubiquitous in industries such as healthcare, automotive, education, manufacturing, retail, design, aerospace and defense and entertainment.

The incorporation of biosensory technology, speech recognition, movement mapping and space perception in VR will give a significant boost to posture and gesture recognition. Such technologies will increase the adoption rate of VR, especially in healthcare, in the areas of virtual surgery, immersive therapy and dentistry. Due to the widening scope of its application, VR as a service will be an important business model in the future.

'Future Applications of Virtual Reality (Immersive Computing)', part of Frost & Sullivan’s TechVision (Information and Communication) growth partnership service programme, has found that the global VR hardware and software market is expected to grow from $1.37bn in 2015 to $33.9bn by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 57.8% between 2016 and 2022.

“Entrepreneurial support by ecosystem participants allows startup companies to adopt the role of demanding stakeholders,” noted Mohammed Jawad, Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan TechVision. “They have the potential to emerge with disruptive technologies, while being insulated from global economic slowdowns and concerns about obtaining huge capital investments.”

Though VR is growing rapidly, it is still out of reach for many sectors. Less than one percent of the world’s computers have the graphical capabilities needed for VR to perform efficiently. Furthermore, the ecosystem of VR relies on vital technology capabilities such as battery efficiency.

“As cross-country and ecosystem partnerships play a major role in developing capabilities, global market participants work with an extensive network of partners to meet customer needs,” noted Jawad. “Meanwhile, technologies such as real-time analytics and beacon will be enabled within the VR/augmented reality environment, as they will impact VR's adoption in business applications.”

The companies that are likely to lead the next phase of growth within the VR space are 900lbs of Creative, Evox Images, ZeroLight, Osso VR, Deepstream VR and VRsim. These innovators will increase job opportunities, widen the market and have a greater impact on the economic growth of the region.