The little widget I showed yesterday lets you explore the lives of around 900 movie actors. You can scroll down to find any of those actors, but you can’t see them all at once.
That’s ok if you just want to roam around and explore. But what if you were dealing with time-critical data? Perhaps a medical emergency, or a terrorist threat?
In that case, every second would count. You would definitely not want to find yourself scrolling down a database while the seconds ticked away.
I’m wondering whether we could reduce that access time by putting the whole thing into Virtual Reality. What if you found yourself in what felt like a physical room, and you could just take a step this way or that way to access data?
Maybe you’d be able to get to any one of those 900 or so names in a single motion. Which means you could perform complex searches and cross-correlations on that data really fast.
And if it really mattered — if lives depended on it — that could make all the difference.