Ideas
Explore the world's #1 largest database of ideas and innovations, with 476,511 inspiring examples.
Trend Reports
Discover why 1,283 brands rely on our AI-powered Trend Reports to get better, faster insights.
Newsletter
Join 304,143 subscribers who rely on our weekly newsletter to keep up with need-to-know trends and insights.
How to Hunt
Learn more about how to hunt megatrends, ideas, patterns and opportunity.
Consumer Insights
Uncover major shifts and emerging opportunities with our exclusive PRO research.
Trend Reports
Discover why 1,283 brands rely on our AI-powered Trend Reports to get better, faster insights.
Newsletter
Join 304,143 subscribers who rely on our weekly newsletter to keep up with need-to-know trends and insights.
How to Hunt
Learn more about how to hunt megatrends, ideas, patterns and opportunity.
Advisory & Services
Accelerate innovation and ignite disruptive thinking with our award-winning programs and research.
Trend Reports
Get fast, customized trend reports, presentations and deep dives 20x faster than traditional research.
Plans
Get started today with a free consultation, our self-serve tools, or a dedicated program.
Articles & Magazine
Get inspired with our 4,231 innovation strategy articles, keynote, videos and innovation tools.
Innovation Awards
Trend Hunter’s Innovation Strategy Awards recognize the best innovation tactics gathered from our interviews with some of the world's most notable business leaders, authors and change makers.
Advisory & Services
Accelerate innovation and ignite disruptive thinking with our award-winning programs and research.
Innovation Assessment
Enhance your innovation potential with a deeper understanding of your unique innovation archetype and how your organization benchmarks.
FuturistU
Prepare for the years ahead with 100+ lessons, tactics, tools and frameworks with our full learning database.
Innovation Books
Join 20,000,000 people getting better and faster with our New York Times Bestselling books and keynote videos.
Jeremy Gutsche
Ignite your event or virtual event with our CEO, a NY Times Bestselling Author and one of the top innovation keynote speakers.
Our Team of Speakers & Virtual Presenters
Inspire your group with our most popular speakers on innovation, trends, change and futurism.
Custom Training & Events
Bring the Future Festival experience directly to your team or co-hosted custom event.
Custom Masterclasses
Join the world's leading brands who leverage our custom programs to accelerate innovation.
FuturistU 5-Day Program
Become a Futurist with our immersive 5-Day program at Future Festival World Summit.
Online eLearning
Learn the fundamentals of futurism and trends with 100+ online courses about innovation.
How to Hunt
Learn more about how to hunt megatrends, ideas, patterns and opportunity.
Contact
Get in touch to learn more, ask a question or submit a tip.
About Us
Learn more about Trend Hunter and how we accelerate innovation.
Follow-Us
Join our 3,500,000 social media followers, on the cutting edge.
How to Hunt
Learn more about how to hunt megatrends, ideas, patterns and opportunity.
FAQ
Get answers to common questions about Trend Hunter.
Community
Stay on the cutting-edge with the help of the Trend Hunter community.
Team
Meet the team trusted by hundreds of leading businesses worldwide.
Jobs
Find opportunities to accelerate your career with the #1 Trend Firm.
News
Catch up on noteworthy Trend Hunter news and media mentions.
Join
Build a portfolio and put your trend-spotting abilities to the test.
Advertising
Supercharge your marketing by partnering with Trend Hunter.
Portfolio
Visit your public portfolio and browse your past articles.
Add a Trend
Write up an article and showcase your trend-spotting skills.
My Trends
Edit your articles and see how they stack up on the leaderboards.
Settings
Edit your profile, connect your social media accounts, and more.
Add a trend, customize your dashboard, or track topics.
Future Festival
Innovation Events
Join the world's top innovators at our in person events.
Free Webinars
Learn to innovate through chaos, navigate the new normal and maintain work culture from home.
Custom Training & Events
Bring the Future Festival experience directly to your team or co-hosted custom event.
Search our database of 476,511 cutting edge ideas.

Virtual Reality Perceptive Developments

Need Inspiration?

Get inspired by 4,000+ keynote speaker videos & our founder, a top keynote speaker on innovation.

Thong Nguyen Gives a Talk about Virtual Reality Impacts

— November 24, 2018 — Keynote Trends
Thong Nguyen is an entrepreneur that focuses on future experience and he explains this with his TED talk about virtual reality impacts and how that can change the way that we perceive things. Roomera is a company founded by Nguyen and it aids people with experiences that test and learns from the future by applying virtual reality elements to conduct research and prototype ideas -- this, in end, drives learning and supports sales development. Nguyen has a strong interest in exploring the reactions of human behavior and how technology plays into it, especially how we understand one another and react through strength and empathy.

Nguyen explains that he has the opportunity to introduce many people to VR for the first time and find that many people don't realize that it can be used for areas beyond gaming and entertainment -- it is used for training athletes, for car design and experiences, alleviating stress for the elderly, and as an alternative to morphine. He explains that an important concept to VR is 'presence,' the feeling of being somewhere, which is our brain's distinct way to understand an experience as real -- VR activates the motor cortex in our brains to give that similar sense. Nguyen shares the statistics that show improvements of reaction, which makes the technology perfect for replicating experiences that are too dangerous to actually perform. He also notes that specific experiences can be designed to address a host of different conditions including phobias, anxiety, speech therapy, and more -- this stresses the fact that VR should not be understated in the role it can play as a viable solution to health challenges.

He explains that embodiment is something we encounter everywhere, yet it isn't a conscious factor that is consistently taken into consideration -- whilst it makes a large impact on both ourselves and the world around us. The rubber hand experiment showcases this as it tricks people to think that their hand feels the same interactions as the rubber hand without visual contact. Nguyen emphasizes that VR can usher change, provide progressive insights through the simple power of perspective. He ends with some questions, "what would happen if VR allowed us to experience and try out different future, what if we had the ability to virtually walk a mile in someone else's shoes, how will our lives change if we can see our own minds, egos, and vulnerability from a different perspective?"
5.9
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness