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Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), education (such as medical, safety or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings).
Virtual reality, a computer technology that simulates an environment with which a user may interact as if it were there; Virtua Racing, a 1992 arcade racing game by Sega; Vocational rehabilitation; Spectre VR, an enhanced version of Spectre; VR.5, an American science fiction television series in 1995
Virtual reality (virtuality), computer programs with an interface that gives the user the impression that they are physically inside a simulated space Virtual world , a computer-based simulated environment populated by many users who can create a personal avatar, and simultaneously and independently explore the world, participate in its ...
[6] [7] In Snow Crash, the metaverse is envisioned as a version of the Internet that is a single, universal, and immersive virtual world, facilitated by the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets. [8] [2] The term "metaverse" is often linked to virtual reality technology, [9] [10] and beginning in the early 2020s, with ...
Oculus Rift, a PC based virtual reality device; Oculus Rift S, a PC based virtual reality device, successor to the Oculus Rift; Oculus Quest, a standalone virtual reality device; Meta Quest 2, launched as Oculus Quest 2, a standalone virtual reality device, successor to the Oculus Quest; Meta Quest 3, a successor to the Oculus Quest 2
OpenVR is a software development kit (SDK) and application programming interface (API) developed by Valve for supporting the SteamVR [1] [2] and other virtual reality headset devices. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The SteamVR platform uses it as the default application programming interface and runtime. [ 5 ]
The first Canadian virtual reality film festival was the FIVARS Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories, founded in 2015 by Keram Malicki-Sánchez. [131] In 2016, the first Polish VR program, The Abakanowicz Art Room was realized – it documented the art office of Magdalena Abakanowicz , made by Jarosław Pijarowski and ...
A woman using the Manus VR glove development kit in 2016. In virtual reality (VR), immersion is the perception of being physically present in a non-physical world. The perception is created by surrounding the user of the VR system in images, sound or other stimuli that provide an engrossing total environment.