Digital Era of Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality

The terms “virtual reality” and “augmented reality” get thrown around a lot. VR headsets, such as the Oculus Quest or Valve Index, and AR apps and games, such as Pokemon Go, are still popular. They sound similar, and as the technologies develop, they bleed into each other a bit.

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) is computer-generated simulation in which we can interact within an artificial three-dimensional environment using electronic devices, such as special goggles with a screen or gloves fitted with sensors.

Types of Virtual Reality :

• Non-immersive VR
• Semi-immersive VR
• Fully-immersive VR

Pros of Virtual Reality

1. Helps with impressive visualization
2. Improves Educational Value
3. Creating Interest
4. Helps to Overcome Language Barriers
5. Give detail and realistic view

Cons of Virtual Reality

1. People get addicted to Virtual World
2. Lacks Flexibility
3. Ineffective Human Connections
4. Expensive
5. Functionality issues

Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory.

Advantages of Augmented Reality

1. It can be used by anyone including mentally and physically disabled individuals.
2. It blurs the line of difference between the virtual and real world, thus increasing its usability and effectiveness in the area of application.
3. Highly interactive nature, enable to assess several instances in advance.
4. Success or failure can be determined by using the computing power of AR, thus saving a ton of money.
5. It finds its heavy usage in the field of health, thus increasing the accuracy of diagnosis for diseases. Since now, it has saved lives of numerous patients.

Disadvantages of Augmented Reality

1. Lack of privacy
2. There can be certain instances where such applications have recorded low performance, thus reducing the overall appeal of the package.
3. High cost of development, maintenance, implementation.
4. It can get extremely costly to develop and maintain an AR based device or an application.
5. Its devices cannot be leveraged without appropriate training thus increase costs and time involved.

Conclusion

Although it’s clear that there are many possibilities to immerse ourselves in the VR/AR like it increases human intelligence world and take advantage of this leading tech, we also need to consider the applications and the cost before starting a journey into virtual and augmented worlds. 

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