The Future This Week: Virtual Worlds & 3D-Printed Hearts

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder straps on its VR goggles and jacks into the web in search of this week’s headlines of the future! From 3D-printed baby hearts and drone delivery nets, to virtual reality everything – it is clear that the future is fast approaching us and it’s going to be awesome.

One of the hottest topics of future disruptive technologies, virtual reality, has been increasingly making headlines as of late. While there’s yet a market in place for said tech, VR is definitely here and it’s becoming more and more immersive by the month it seems. And with 3D-printing technologies moving at similar speeds, one thing is made abundantly clear: our sci-fi dreams are coming true. Welcome to the future!

British conceptual artist Mark Farid has decided to conduct a socio-psychological experiment by staying in one room, for 28 days, living another person’s life by wearing a virtual reality headset. SOURCE

Australian researchers are developing drone delivery nets, what they believe will eventually be installed in every home of the future, in preparation for the UAE-backed global competition Drones For Good. SOURCE

Scientists at the University of Illinois College of Medicine have designed 3D-printed heart replicas from babies to help surgeons prepare for future operations. SOURCE

Virtual reality is about to become much more immersive as Oculus users are starting to integrate Leap Motion, a controller which senses hand and finger movements, into their gaming – or as Vice’s Editor called it, “feeling the future!” SOURCE

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