Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Overview

Virtual Reality

  • Defined as an artificial environment created with software and presented so the user suspends, believes and accepts it as a real environment on a computer.

  • Primarily experienced through two of the five senses: sight and sound.

  • Uses a VR headset or VR Google app to create the virtual environment.

Augmented Reality

  • Combines both physical world and the virtual world.

  • Operates by superimposing computer generated images or animation into a real world environment.

  • Blends the digital world and physical elements to create an artificial environment.