Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality (VR)
What is it?
Virtual means ‘almost or nearly as described, but not completely’, therefore, Virtual Reality is when something is not physically existing as such but made by a software to appear to do so.
Virtual reality is an artificial 3-dimensional environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment. It is a digitally created space that humans could access by donning sophisticated computer equipment. Once inside that space, people could be transported to a different world, a substitute reality in which one could interact with objects, people, and environments, the appearance of which were bound only by the limits of the human imagination.
Virtual reality has been designed to address one or more of our senses: visual (sight), auditory (hearing), tactile (feel) and olfactory (smell). As of now, computer and electronic scientists and engineers are working on a system that will include the sense of taste.
How it works
For virtual reality to work, there are three imperatives: a computer, special software and the individual user. There are various input devices to greatly enhance the virtual reality experience and make it work. Items such as helmets, glasses, joysticks, mice and wands. These input devices are designed to record and measure electronic signals and convert them into a physical world. The output devices permit the user's brain to process the computer-generated physical world that is created. The user then simultaneously interacts with this physical world while his or her brain interprets the sensory data. The main power of a virtual reality system is the reality engine. This engine is designed to process the information and create the virtual world. It can either be made up by a group of computers, or one powerful computer. This is because the reality engine is required to generate complex graphics.
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What is it?
Virtual means ‘almost or nearly as described, but not completely’, therefore, Virtual Reality is when something is not physically existing as such but made by a software to appear to do so.
Virtual reality is an artificial 3-dimensional environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment. It is a digitally created space that humans could access by donning sophisticated computer equipment. Once inside that space, people could be transported to a different world, a substitute reality in which one could interact with objects, people, and environments, the appearance of which were bound only by the limits of the human imagination.
Virtual reality has been designed to address one or more of our senses: visual (sight), auditory (hearing), tactile (feel) and olfactory (smell). As of now, computer and electronic scientists and engineers are working on a system that will include the sense of taste.
How it works
For virtual reality to work, there are three imperatives: a computer, special software and the individual user. There are various input devices to greatly enhance the virtual reality experience and make it work. Items such as helmets, glasses, joysticks, mice and wands. These input devices are designed to record and measure electronic signals and convert them into a physical world. The output devices permit the user's brain to process the computer-generated physical world that is created. The user then simultaneously interacts with this physical world while his or her brain interprets the sensory data. The main power of a virtual reality system is the reality engine. This engine is designed to process the information and create the virtual world. It can either be made up by a group of computers, or one powerful computer. This is because the reality engine is required to generate complex graphics.
Applications
There