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Virtual Reality
Unlike traditional media, Virtual Reality (VR) relocates you into a computer-generated virtual environment.
Inside this virtual world, you interact with your whole body using all your senses. A Virtual Reality is created
by a VR system constructed of hardware and software. The illusion of being in a virtual environment is called
immersion. If the immersion is stable over time, you feel to 'being there' which is called the sense of
presence.
Virtual Reality allows for traveling into the world of molecules or galaxies, into the future or the past.
Testing products not yet produced or performing experiments not possible in reality.
And this really works? It does. Scientifically proven. In the Presenccia Project,
the
Virtual Milgram experiment (another article can be found here)
or in the Pit Room Experiment.
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Augmented Reality (AR) combines VR with the physical world. By overlaying virtual images,
our surroundings are 'augmented' with three-dimensional virtual objects.
AR can provide a doctor with X-ray vision into the patient, offers tourists a view into
history, augment newspapers with videos, placard your surroundings with Wikipedia articles or
virtual furniture.
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Mobile Augmented Reality
With the advent of affordable and powerful mobile devices in the recent years, Augmented Reality found it's natural field of application: outdoors. Camera equipped smartphones and tablet computers, car navigation systems and portable gaming consoles superimpose the ubiquitous world wide web as graphical layer over our everyday physical world. Roads and subway stations are augmented by direction signs, your local town becomes a playing field of a multiplayer online game or a graffiti art exhibition.
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