5G will popularize virtual and augmented reality
Seung-Hwa Jun, Jung-Ho Kim · 2017
As the telegraph and the Internet served in the previous industrial revolutions, the fifth generation (5G) network works as a general purpose technology (GPT) for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Virtual and augmented reality, one of the most attractive technologies leading the Fourth is ideal for 5G, benefitting from enhanced bandwidth and latency. KT's attempt to showcase various virtual and augmented reality services for the world's first 5G Olympics in 2018 will be historic.1 The world will take the first step into the 5G era and get a glimpse of the infinite possibilities of VR/AR.