GAMES

Around the planet, futurists, technologists, and creatives are pouring billions of dollars into the rapid creation of technology that place viewers at the core of immersive, interactive environments — worlds we’ve only seen in sci-fi visions like “Star Trek’s” holodeck and “The Matrix” trilogy’s futuristic dystopia… worlds truly worthy of the term virtual reality.

Experts now believe that this future — in which we explore the web like a real-life city or play the lead character in a movie like our own version of “The Game” — is only 5-10 years away, with demand figures in the tens of billions for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality content alone — is only 5-10 years away. Alternative realities (VR, AR, and MR) are changing the way people tell stories in the digital age.