Virtual Reality

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VIRTUAL REALITY
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What is virtual reality?

• The definition of virtual is near and reality
  is what we experience. So the term virtual
  reality basically means near-reality.

• So Virtual reality (VR) means experiencing things
  through our computers that don't really exist.

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Virtual reality is essentially

• Believable
• Interactive
• Explorable
• Immersive
• Computer-generated

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Types of virtual reality

• Fully immersive
• Non-immersive
• Collaborative
• Web-based
• Augmented reality

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History of virtual reality

• 1838 The stereoscope (Charles Wheatstone)
• 1849 The lenticular stereoscope (David
  Brewster)
• 1939 The View-Master (William Gruber)
• 1929 Link Trainer The First Flight Simulator
• 1930 Science fiction story predicted VR
• 1950 Morton Heiligs Sensorama

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History of virtual reality

• 1960 The first VR Head Mounted Display
• 1961 Headsight First motion tracking HMD
• 1965 The Ultimate display by Ivan Sutherland
• 1968 Sword of Damocles
• 1969 Artificial Reality
• 1987 Virtual reality the name was born
• 1991 Virtuality Group Arcade Machines

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History of virtual reality

• 1992 The Lawnmower Man
• 1993 SEGA announce new VR glasses
• 1995 Nintendo Virtual Boy
• 1999 The Matrix
• 2011 Palmer Luckey develops the Oculus Rift, an
  inexpensive homemade HMD, in his parents' garage.
• 2014 Facebook announces its acquisition of
  Oculus in a deal worth 2 billion.

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History of virtual reality

• 2016 Oculus begins shipping its Rift headsets to
  customers to generally positive reviews.
  Meanwhile, a variety of smartphone makers
  (including Samsung and HTC) produce rival VR
  systems, VR also appears for PlayStation, and
  Google announces it has shipped over 5 million
  cardboard head-mounted displays for smartphones.

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History of virtual reality

• 2017 Sony reveals that it sold almost a million
  PlayStation VR headsets in their first four
  months on the market.

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Applications of virtual reality

• Education
• Medicine
• Industrial design and architecture
• Games and entertainment

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Advantages

• Used in various fields
• Gives detail views
• Connects with people
• Effective communication
• Virtual reality creates a realistic world 
• User have awesome experiences

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