Nokia paints virtual pictures in our heads over the future of VR

Nokia, or at least the Alcatel part of Nokia, seems to be hell bent on following the path towards a virtual reality future, but some research at Bell Labs, shown at a research briefing at Nokia’s Cambridge Labs this 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 which mostly related to products which are with us today, to talk a little about the future – which Bell Labs sees as being somewhat further away than most, but most decidedly it has a VR flavor. The distance away real VR…