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How are Social Media and AR/VR going to interact in 2030

Here are few ideas of how social media will look like in 12 years from now

·        It will be more experiential, rather than what it is now, representative media. Experiential meaning involving all the senses, stimulating the participants perception of touch, taste and smell alongside sight, suggests Toshi Hoo, director of the IFTF’s (Institute for the Future) Emerging Media Lab  (Walker, J., 2017).
·        Hoo also mentions that there will be a fundamental shift in the way the information is presented and experienced. With social media adding AR and VR, it won’t be one dimensional as it is now.  (Walker, J., 2017).
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         By 2030, the web will have escaped the screen. There will be chance to create alternative  scenarios and you will be able to communicate with people from different countries or places and the lines between what is real and what is not will be blurry. (Walker, J., 2017).

References
Walker, J., (2017). Virtual Reality to recreate an “Internet of Experience” by 2030. Digital Journal. Retrieved from: http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/virtual-reality-to-create-an-internet-of-experience-by-2030/article/497608

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