Keeping on the theme of cool future technologies lets take a look at the sister of augmented reality, virtual reality. I understand if you think they are the same but in fact they are quite different. Here's the definitions as per trusty Wikipedia:
Augmented Reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment
whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video,
graphics or GPS data.
Virtual Reality (VR) is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that can simulate
physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds.
So whats the big difference? Augmented reality is the real world with computer outputs overlaid on it where virtual reality is complete immersion in a computer generated world. For example an augmented reality demonstration:
Very cool right? Now lets look at an example of virtual reality:
See the difference? Its pretty cool. There are many projects like these ongoing. The experience is very interesting. The SCAPE project at the University of Arizona supports two users that can exist in the same virtual world but in different places in that virtual world. You can interact with the environment or each other in that environment. A new world within a world. Its like a little bit of inception. Hope it blew you mind a little - Laters
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