How would it be if you were able to transport yourself on the other side of the planet in just 10 seconds?

What would you do once there?

What if a friend of yours decided to help you do this?

There is only one device that allows teleportation, and that device is the smartphone. We all have the smartphone in our pocket at all times. We are in front of a powerful computer just some of the time. This is why mobile VR is the answer, if you are on holiday and it is one of those perfect moments you say “ I wish Mark, or John or Maggie was here”.
They can be there, just with the device that is in your pocket. They may not be in front of a pc anyway, so for them the smartphone is the answer too.

What are then the best solutions to bring VR to each one of us? I choose some of them I believe are really promising.
First: 360 cameras. They can fit in our pockets and some of them start to be as small and portable as the smartphone and in two or three cases, they are part of the smartphone!
The best attempts to do this are here, GoPro has its new 360 camera: http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/4/20/15355234/gopro-fusion-camera-360-spherical-sample-video
The most ambitious in terms of smartphone capabilities are the two insta360, one for iPhone:
https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-nano/
and one for Android, sorry no Windows version yet!
https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-air
I believe with these sort of devices we will be able to capture a moment and make other people live it again.
What about the second part then? How to relive it? Mobile is still the imperative, but all those big cardboard and plastic boxes do not look like mobile to me, what do you think?
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=vr+glasses
Someone found a way to make them portable though, 3 companies I believe pioneering the VR vision, one made these big boxes soft, so you can carry them around without breaking them, although I doubt they are going to be easy to carry around:
https://mergevr.com/goggles
The most amazing versions I found so far, the ones that remind me most about the “Black Mirror” concept( see previous blog post) are these, and they fit your pocket and are as big as a smartphone or a small 360 camera.
http://www.homido.com/en/mini
http://www.stimuli.us/
You can reviews and some use cases here
Merge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTwCBVgfms
Homido Mini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht4IjtL-8OY
2VR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDsutwvrmc

Imagine having 2 smartphones in your pocket (some of us carry them already) and being able to create content that other people is able to immerse into! Even better, imagine when the smartphone and a pair of sunglasses do it all.
I believe when miniaturization will do its job we will have it, VR mobile, just like teleportation.
What do you think about it? I want to hear from you.

Do you think VR (Virtual Reality) is dead or is it here to stay? If you have seen “Black Mirror” you know the answer. If you want a surprise just go at the end, Netflix made a video to explain what I am about to write.

“Nothing is too real” tells one of the characters of this tv series. This happens while he watches what the other person sees through a special device called Z-Eye. This piece of technology gives the power to people to see what you see. The name of the episode is White Christmas, but I do not want to spoil it for you.

In another episode (“The entire story of you”) our tech hero, Liam foxwell, reviews his workday and also his relationship with his wife through a device that keeps memories and lets people play them back again whenever they want. They can also stream the memories to tv screens and share them with friends.

Something bad always happens with these technologies around. This is another reason why it is a magnificent tv series the one we are talking about.

The trust of a man for his wife becomes weaker when he can look at all the details of the conversations she has with other men. Another person uses this trick to get help from experts to find girls.

Is it not so much different from now, when employers are able to control their workers with webcams or girls can see where the boifriend went out with the boys. The fact we post all our party nights out or holidays with friends make us vulnerable to thieves that know when we are at home or not.
Everyone also knows what we do, what car we drive, what bathroom we do have, thanks to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and social networks in general.

Social networks are growing. The goal is to connect everyone in the world, as confirmed both in the words of Mark Zukenberg and the statistics you can find easily over the web: https://blog.hootsuite.com/social-media-statistics-for-social-media-managers
Why do we need virtual reality then? Think of a father that goes on a business trip to a foreign country and his children want to see him. Is it not nice that you can talk with your children or your dear friends using Skype even when you are 20 hours flight away?

Would you not be pleased to be there beside them or better on their same spot, seeing what they see? Almost feeling you can hug them.
We already have devices that give us the chance for that, they just need a bit more development.
VR is one of them, but how?
With 360 cameras we are already able to record around us and be somewhere else, see through the eyes of someone else. Have you tried to watch Youtube 360 video or Facebook 360? Try it, ask a friend very far from you to make a 360 video and then put some VR glasses on to watch it. Then tell me if you believe in the Black Mirror future prediction.
Or in Netflix’s prediction: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/black-mirror-netflix-advert-nightmare-vista-mini-episode-a7428056.html

Mispelled
If you look at the title there is a letter missing in the world teleport, of course that is a wanted mistake.

The uncorrectly written word telport is to underline the fact that you cannot really teleport yourself wherever you want, but you could do something very similar, and that something is to teleport yourself with virtual reality.

Dead like 3d?
Then again you can ask yourself about the future of this technology.
Is it good, is it bad, will it be like 3D pictures and movies, a technology that doesn’t have anything interesting to say anymore?

I didn’t know this but I do know that everyone want to be connected to their friends and family and to their loved ones.
We all want to be close with someone, and see other places and people. We wanto to travel the world, and we would love to have a telport experience, something that brings us wherever we want to go.

Have you tried Google Cardboard?
If you have not tried it yet you should try virtual reality. At least something cheaper, like the Google cardboard version.

So, what’s in this teleport? You will have to try it, you have see with your own eyes, because if you don’t, you will not experience it and will not say wow! Like I said the first time.

The idea is thath in the next two years you will be able to speak with anyone anywhere, see with their eyes and hear with their fingers( they are developing gloves), I’m not I’m not even sure that you could even be able to smell with their nose too(we have to verify the news yet www.feelreal.com).

But before we arrive there we need something that makes us connect, and the only thing that connects us all and at least two billion people on this Earth is the smart phone.
The only way to have Virtual Reality for everyone would only be if we bring the virtual reality to the smartphone.

What if I could be in China then in Canada and finally in Paris in just 2 seconds?
I imagine that you would be able to take out your phone from your pocket take a picture, record yourself and send it to the internetsphere! What about the rest of your friends? you will be able to do that’s what I just said with a whatsapp like app.

At TeleportVR( www.telportvr.com) we are experimenting the first step of these these many steps.
At last we will be able to navigate through the pictures and videos but at first we just need you to take simple 360 degrees pictures.
Once you can do a very powerful device will sit in your pocket and you will be able to experience the Telport.