Virtual Reality - by Arpit Gupta

Introduction  Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment.  On a computer, virtual reality is primarily experienced through two of the five senses: sight and sound.

Types Immersive Augmented Text-based Desktop (Window on a World)

What is Immersive VR? A type of VR in which the user becomes immersed (deeply involved) in a virtual world. It is also a form of VR that uses computer related components.

Types of Non-immersive VR Text-based VR: When a reader of a certain text form a mental model of this virtual world in their head from the description of people, places and things. Augmented VR: The idea of taking what is real and adding to it in some way so that user obtains more information from their environment.

Desktop (Window on a World) Exactly what we all are doing here !!!!!

Devices Head Mounted Displays (HMD):

Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) A room with projections on all walls, floor and ceiling. The users wear shutter glasses to get a 3D view of the world. The users are able to move and control the environment with some kind of input mechanism.

Vision Dome

Data Gloves

Virtual reality Modeling Language ( V R M L ) VRML produces a hyperspace (or a world), a 3- dimensional space that appears on your display screen. And you can figuratively move within this space. VRML provides three-dimensional world with integrated hyperlinks on the Web. Home pages become home spaces.

VRML is capable of representing static and animated dynamic 3D and multimedia objects with hyperlinks to other media such as text, sounds, movies, and images. VRML is more than an extension of HTML. Not a programming language like c++ or java. Descriptive (rather than procedural) like HTML. Characteristics of VRML

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