The ever-increasing demand for mobile and wireless data has placed a huge strain on today’s WiFi and cellular networks. Millimeter wave frequency bands address this problem by offering multi-GHz of unlicensed bandwidth – 200 times more than the bandwidth allocated to today’s WiFi and cellular networks. In this talk, I describe the opportunities and challenges brought in by this technology, and its applications in enabling untethered virtual reality headsets and high throughput multi-media applications.