What it felt like to visit the most tech-centric Olympics ever

VR that lets you hurtle headfirst down an ice track. Welcome to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, where emerging technologies seem to be everywhere. South Korea is trying to use the event to highlight its leadership in wireless connectivity by building the world's first large-scale deployment of 5G, the next generation in cellular networks, which is expected to launch globally starting in 2020. Visitors can get hands-on with 5G at Pyeongchang's "ICT Experience Center," an exhibition space that showcases five information and communications technologies, from 5G to the internet of things, AI, virtual reality, and ultra-high-definition TV. Organizing the technologies this way underscores how 5G enables the other services by transmitting masses of data in real time with high-resolution quality.