If you ask me, I think it still early days for 3D Visualisation Software. It is slowly taking off but I think when it does there is so much potential for it's uses. Sure, the move towards animated visualisation was a bit slow to begin with but it wont be long until things change, with the purchase of Youtube by Google, Search Engine Optimisation is extremely important.
I think a future for 3D Visualisation can be afflicted more with reality rather than the likes of Youtube, printed work or DVD. I would say that in the next few years 3D will be something we see in the virtual world and be shown on a clear holographic display. This environment would be quite similar to the one we see in films such as Avatar and it will slowly but surely become apart of our lives. It won't be long until everywhere we go a virtual environment will surround us.
The latest 3D Visualisation Technology is need to build such virtual worlds. To co-inside with the technology, special eye wear would have to worn to view the full benefits of the 3D visualisation. But when you think about how far technology has come i'd say in the future a chip could be inserted into the human eye and special eye wear would not be needed.
Designers will be able to use 3D Visualisation to build virtual world that can be explored to great lengths, this would be similar to the way in which a computer game works. The experience of a virtual world would include weather changes, lighting, changing the shape and height of buildings and placing more or less people into the scene is only a few of the possibilities.
This will have obvious benefits for the gaming industry but how will this translate into our real lives? I see our tangible life becoming a hybrid of the virtual and real world. Imagine an virtual overlay on our real world vision. A set of ever changing data appearing to our left field of view. The ability to change the appearance of things using libraries of selectable virtual environments created by the 3d visualisation artists.
Of course there will be those that think this type of idea is all pie in the sky talk! And to some extent it may well be, however some forms of augmented reality are already starting to break through. It is only a matter of time before the abilities of the 3D visualisation Artist crosses path with the augmented reality technologist and the world will become a strange fusion of real and virtual.
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