IFA 2016: AMD’s CTO: it’s ‘Moore’s Law Plus’ that will drive VR toward full immersion

By Joe Osborne

AMD VR

Proper virtual reality (VR) headsets have only been available for a few months to a year, and it’s already the next big thing in tech that we can’t stop hearing about. But, this has happened before – at least a few times.

What makes this time different, and will VR finally stick this time as the future of not just gaming, but social networking, computing and – frankly – everything?

During his IFA 2016 keynote address in Berlin, AMD Senior Vice President and CTO Mark Papermaster showed his hand in all this pretty clearly. (Really, it’s a fascinating hour-long talk that you can watch right below.)

YouTube : https://youtu.be/JMQ5YyNRWh8?t=406

And, considering Papermaster has even contributed his talents to IBM’s PowerPC chipset design – you know, the one Apple used for so long in its Macintosh – you’d be smart to heed his words on where this is all headed.

So, we did just that in a candid conversation following the keynote, in which Papermaster dishes on what he thinks it will take for VR to hit mainstream before it fizzles out – like it’s done too many times before.

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