In this Tech Chats interview, we speak with Amber Mace from EY about women and virtual reality. Mace explains why fewer women than men are adopting VR and what can be done to encourage more women to use this type of technology.
Can you tell us a little about the survey that EY conducted into virtual reality?
Sure, so it was commissioned by the TMT Women’s Network, which is a network that supports women in the technology media and telecoms industry, there’s a lot of press at the moment around supporting and trying to get more women into tech, and there’s also a lot of press around disruptive technologies, of which VR is one. So what we wanted to do was really combine those two themes and take a look at whether the virtual reality industry was equally appealing or as appealing to men as it is to women....