Virtual Horizons 🌪️: Let's talk about AR and VR
Exploring the Practical Uses of AR and VR....
Hello 🤗 Innovators
What makes Consonance Club thick? You get information inspiring and supporting you on your journey of innovation in a way that only we can deliver to you 😃.
If it’s not inspiring and supporting innovation, it’s not Consonance Club, so you might as well shed the dead weight.
It’s been a great year so far, and as the year gradually comes to an end, we might as well reflect on how this journey started.
Storytime 🔔🛎
“After a long search 🔍 of Founders to make up our community, we found you, and you know the story. However, since we are so excited 😊 and emotional at the same time about our fast-approaching community anniversary, we'll tell it again.
Here's our version of the search;
First-person: I'm not the innovator, I'm the innovator’s assistant.
Second Person: I'm not the innovator, I'm the innovator's friend
Third Person: I'm not the innovator, I'm the innovator's driver.
We finally 💨 found you at the end of the line (because as they say, there's light at the end of the tunnel 😁), and off we went as we got to know each other.
In time, we realized that our search was mutual and we have been in search 🔎 of each other for a while.
What a beautiful ❤️ non-coincidence 😯!
Today, just as every other day, we have something special for you, but ☝🏽 before then, we don’t laugh 😅 alone, never have and we won’t start now….
😅😅 We hope this stirs your Saturday in the right direction as always.
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As seen on an innovator’s status…
We have more news for you about Crowdyvest, just down below 👇🏽👇🏽. Wondering why this session is so soon today? it’s because we figured some of our innovators don’t read our hard-sourced news, and it lowkey hurts 🤕😥
So here you go.
Notable Reads For The Week As Seen on TechPoint
Interswitch reportedly loses N30 million to chargeback fraud
Paystack receives authorization to operate in Egypt, Rwanda, and Côte d'Ivoire
Kenya opens its first smartphone factory with retail prices starting from KSh 7,499
Your biggest takeaway from today’s newsletter should be what to do with AR and VR for the greater good of Africa 🌍.
You got that? Alright, Let’s go!
You almost can’t talk about VR without AR, they go hand in hand 🤝🏽 and without blowing so much dust off the history books, we’ll give a bit of a background story. After all, how could you effectively dominate a space you don’t know the foundation of 🤷🏽♀️?
AR and VR Throwback
AR and VR can trace their roots back to the 1960s. In 1962, Morton Heilig created the Sensorama, an immersive theatre experience, considered one of the earliest attempts at VR.
Around the same time, computer scientist Ivan Sutherland developed the first head-mounted display, paving the way for virtual reality simulations.
VR These Days and you…
Well, Apple 🍎 has since said hold my beer 🍺.
The Apple 🍎 doesn't fall far from the tree 🌴
Apple took up the task from immersive theatre experiences to having the ultimate theatre wherever you are and transforming every room into your theatre.
Expect you’ve been living under a rock, you are aware that Apple just announced its ‘Apple Vision Pro’ Virtual Reality product features, and true to the VR objectives, this is a wonder. It’s the era of spatial computing, where you can’t touch it, but you sure can navigate it using those same hands. The plan indeed is to be able to do things you love in ways you never thought possible.
They understood the assignment, but we are sure that there are innovators in Africa 🌍 who understand the classwork to start with. So, while we await the launch early next year let’s focus on getting you started.
The story of AR and VR is one of relentless innovation, where pioneers and visionaries have turned science fiction into reality, opening new dimensions of exploration and creativity for generations to come.
We want innovators in Africa to get a hold of this and that's why we are here 🦸♀️. AR and VR show us that your wildest imaginations are beyond valid.
Feel free to pick our brains, or live off our imaginations for a minute.
Imagine being able to locate missing items not necessarily because you put a tracker on it, but because your virtual reality gadget remembers sighting it (because of course you don’t 😅). Being able to see far into the traffic conditions of a route you plan to ply all without leaving your home (this would definitely help Lagos people.)
You see? It all starts with your imagination, you just have to let it flow.
The good news is you are already on track and you have everything it takes to get started on innovation with AR and VR. Chances are, the innovator reading this is a software developer, graphic designer, UI/UX designer, blockchain engineer, and a founder in the making. These are the basics, remember the progression we just talked about? We believe your intro into innovation with AR and VR starts with your presence in the tech world.
So…
Imagination ✔
A tech skill set ✔✔
A Consonance Club community of innovators to support and inspire you. ✔✔✔
Join the Consonance Club community of Innovators, to experience what we keep talking about.
Just don't forget that the real world still exists, or does it?
It’s all fun and innovation until it isn’t…
You can bet that ‘Conspiracy theorists’ got in on this already. Are they conspiracy theorists though?
The irony of this is that our source is an article from the New York Post. Probably a wake up 🌅 call from the woke community.
“Palmer Luckey, a leader in virtual reality and the founder of Oculus, better known now as a part of Facebook’s Meta, created a VR headset that will actually kill the user if they die in the game” the article says.
Wondering how on God's green earth this could fly 🕊️
“According to Luckey, the device’s creator ‘was able to hide from his employees, regulators, and contract manufacturing partners. I am a pretty smart guy, but I couldn’t come up with any way to make anything like this work, not without attaching the headset to gigantic pieces of equipment.”
Like play, like play e don dey 😎 change.
In conclusion the article ends by saying
“But worry not, the headset is not available to buy.”
Innovator Of The Week
Shola Jegede is the Founder and CEO of Getcollabo.
What is Getcollabo?
It's obviously not the conventional Startup.
GetCollabo is for independent creators who don't have a team. It provides simple tools for tasks like invoicing, contracts, payments, and collaboration.
Shola has always been fascinated by creators, probably because he's one himself. However, having collaborated with many creators for various brands as a Brand Marketer, he got to see the not-so-glamorous, fragmented, and manual aspects of collaborative work for independent creators without dedicated teams.
He saw the need, the opportunity, and with the expertise he had in the space, knew he could solve this problem and give independent creators around the world a much better collaborative experience.
There you have the Getcollabo story🤠.
For Shola, there's a sense of fufillment and purpose that comes with this, as should be with one’s passion.
Getcollabo has impacted the lives of over 700 creators, and every feedback Shola receives is like firewood to his fire arousing the fire for even greater innovation.
Heres Shola’s words to the budding innovator;
“Just start. What's the worst that could happen? You fail, you have a story to share and an experience you won't forget.”
We couldn't say it better
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