Nokia seems to be hell-bent on blazing the trail towards a virtual reality future, but some research at its Bell Labs R&D arm, shown at a research briefing at Nokia’s Cambridge Labs in the UK last week, gives some idea of the price an operator may have to pay to deliver a VR vision. Bo Olofsson, head of multi-sensory communication research at Nokia Bell Labs, brightened up an afternoon of product demonstrations and technical briefings to talk a little about the future – which Bell Labs sees as being somewhat further away than most, but with a decided VR flavor. That distance before we reach ‘real VR’ is because the world’s networks cannot hope to deliver the massive bandwidth that…