Virtual Reality: Huge Investment Support Accelerates Innovations and Expands Application Scope

Biosensors, speech recognition, movement mapping and space perception will give a significant boost to the market prospects of VR technologies, finds Frost & Sullivan's TechVision Team

LONDON, March 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The rapid growth of the virtual reality (VR) market is attracting substantial private and federal investments 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 & Communication) Growth Partnership Service program, finds that the global VR hardware and software market is expected to grow from $1.37 billion in 2015 to $33.90 billion by 2022, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 57.8 percent between 2016 and 2022.

Click on the following link for complimentary access to more information on this analysis and to register for a Growth Strategy Dialogue, a free interactive briefing with Frost & Sullivan's thought leaders: https://goo.gl/sFBdB2 

"Entrepreneurial support by ecosystem participants allows startup companies to adopt the role of demanding stakeholders," noted Frost & Sullivan TechVision Research Analyst Mohammed Jawad. "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 1 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.

About TechVision
Frost & Sullivan's global TechVision practice is focused on innovation, disruption and convergence, and provides a variety of technology-based alerts, newsletters and research services as well as growth consulting services. Its premier offering, the TechVision program, identifies and evaluates the most valuable emerging and disruptive technologies enabling products with near-term potential. A unique feature of the TechVision program is an annual selection of 50 technologies that can generate convergence scenarios, possibly disrupt the innovation landscape, and drive transformational growth. View a summary of our TechVision program by clicking on the following link: http://ifrost.frost.com/TechVision_Demo.

About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, works in collaboration with clients to leverage visionary innovation that addresses the global challenges and related growth opportunities that will make or break today's market participants. For more than 50 years, we have been developing growth strategies for the global 1000, emerging businesses, the public sector and the investment community. Contact us: Start the discussion

Contact:
Anna Zanchi
Corporate Communications – Europe
P: +39.02.4851 6133
E: anna.zanchi@frost.com
http://www.frost.com