The Possible Uses of 3D Visualisation in the Future

In my opinion 3D Visualisation as we know it today is still very much in its infancy. Even the shift towards animated visualisation has been slow to take off. That said, this will undoubtedly be very popular in the not so distant future with Google's acquisition of YouTube and the importance of video in search engine optimisation.

3D visualisation in the future is much more likely to be closely linked with augmented reality than YouTube, DVD or printed publications. I envisage a future whereby we experience a semi virtual world being played out on transparent style holographic screens. This immersive environment will probably be the type of thing we currently see in movies such as Avatar and will likely creep into our lives very slowly. Before long we will no doubt be surrounded by complete virtual environments if we so choose.

It is these environments that shall be created using the latest 3D visualisation technology. To facilitate this technology we as humans will likely have to wear some form of eye-wear / glasses to experience this virtual world, however this will likely become a permanent chip inserted into our eyes in future times.

Using 3D visualisation software, artists will be able to create virtual environments that we can explore, very much like how a computer game works today. We will be able to experience full virtual worlds with a variety of weather types, different light, shade and possibly make several layers of adjustments to our world such as changing the height of virtual buildings or adding more virtual people to our scene.

This will have obvious benefits for the gaming industry but how will this translate into our real lives? I see our tangible life becoming a hybrid of the virtual and real world. Imagine a virtual overlay on our real world vision. A set of ever-changing data appearing to our left field of view. The ability to change the appearance of things using libraries of selectable virtual environments created by the 3D visualisation artists.

Of course there will be those that think this type of idea is all pie in the sky talk! And to some extent it may well be, however some forms of augmented reality are already starting to break through. It is only a matter of time before the abilities of the 3D visualisation artist crosses paths with the augmented reality technologist and the world will become a strange fusion of real and virtual.

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