Group Presentation

This blog post is about one of the presentations that the class had, specifically the one on Virtual Reality. To me, virtual reality is a super cool technology that is up and coming which allows people to experience things that have never been experienced before.  Basically Virtual Reality is an interactive computer-generated experience which simulates the real world and sends the information to a headset or mobile phone. Some of the things the presentation talked about in particular that I found interesting were AR and MR, which I had never heard of before. AR stands for Augmented Reality and MR stands for Mixed Reality. Augmented Reality is when the virtual world is augmented through multiple senses, such as visual, auditory, etc. I found AR to be very interesting because of the way that it looks. In my eyes, AR looks very futuristic, almost like it never should be found in real life, something that is only in movies. The last reality he talked about in his presentation was MR. Mixed Reality which merges the real and virtual worlds together, somewhere in between both Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Some places that you can find virtual reality was also interesting to me. Apparently, people use virtual reality to make architecture, using engines like the Unreal Engine. It is also used in gaming, using VR headsets such as the HTC Vive or the Oculus Rift. These VR headsets is what i am most familiar with, because they are talked about quite a bit in the gaming world, as many people predict it to be the next big thing.