Future Smartphones: Confluence of Virtual Reality, Sensors, and Super Designs

So, you are walking by a Japanese restaurant and your phone knows exactly what you are looking for. It knows that you love ‘sushi’. It offers you not simply a coupon, but a unique and quite an immersive experience where a user gets to explore the restaurant virtually to see what people are eating and even visit the kitchen to see how their favorite food is prepared. This is not part of a fiction – but would soon be a reality with Future Smartphones.

Similar logic can be placed on tourist places of interests, medical field and sporting arena - where a future smartphone can enable seamless immersive experience using true next generation sensors and virtual reality elements.

As we have experienced, over the past one decade or so, smartphones have evolved from simply a mobile phone device used to communicate - to portable entertainment centers that can possible replace a personal computer.

Today, consumers use smartphone to communicate with others, text messaging, watch movies, work etc. moving forward, future smartphones are about to evolve further and deliver much more than what it is being delivered in a device today. As this whole space of IoT is being revolutionized, next generation sensor are set to become even smarter and deliver unique data. This when combined with virtual reality will usher in new era of personal engagement, convenience, and utility for smartphone segment.

Smartphone is Smarter

Today’s smartphones are packed with a number of tiny sensors that enable smartphones to collect all kinds of data about who we are, what we are doing, and the world around us. This data is set to get even denser when we talk about future smartphones.

We already know about accelerometers and gyroscopes sensors. These have the potential to collect data on us even when we are not actively using the smartphone. Smartphones also have an image sensor, touch sensor, proximity sensor, and more than 20 other sensors, including GPS for location etc.

And yes, new sensors are being developed. Each one opens the door to new possibilities and innovations. Interestingly, chemists at MIT recently developed a smartphone sensor that detects when exactly food has gone bad. Imagine using this kind of sensor on a smartphone, to check if the bread you brought home a day back is still safe to eat?

Sensors make our phones more aware. But sensors themselves only collect the raw data. Putting that data to use requires machine learning. By searching for patterns in the data, intelligent apps can figure out whether you are tall or short, big or little, and even guess at gender. It may sound spooky at first, but not so when you consider how useful apps will become.

Intelligent Future Apps, Will Think on Their Own

As we move towards the future, Mobile Applications will derive greater element of intelligence using sensor-based data to provide contextual information to the users. Even today there are a number of fitness Apps, and others such as Uber, Yelp, use GPS as their main powering engine to serve information based on a user’s location. This can further get boosted with the help of better sensors in future smartphones.

Quite interestingly, some apps are even crowdsourcing sensor data for traffic and weather forecasts. But tomorrow’s mobile apps will employ sensor information to a far greater extent. Theses apps will pick up on patterns and routines and learn a user’s preferences over time.

Future apps will usher in a new level of convenience. Instead of asking for input, they will anticipate your needs. Your phone might send calls to voice mail if you are driving or switch into Airplane Mode when it senses a plane moving on the tarmac. An app might hear people talking in a conference room and ask, ‘Do you want to record the meeting?’

Virtual Reality in Smartphone – all about creative engagement

As believed by many industry experts, powered by future-ready 4G networks - future smartphones are moving in the right direction to soon deliver immersive experiences, bringing inanimate objects to life and letting consumers do things like walk around a tourist spot such as the Taj Mahal or explore the latest exhibit at a museum – quite seamlessly and effortlessly.

And in such a scenario, future advertising on these future smartphones may no longer interrupt a user’s attention, but actually utilize the active engagement in a better manner. So for instance, users might utilize virtual reality capabilities of their future smartphone to walk through a real estate office – take a look at various offers, plans etc and finally fix a meeting with the executive to finalize the deal.

When we talk about the future, the smartphone hardware and software will work in complete harmony – delivering unique and engaging customer experience with the help of virtual reality.

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