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What is difference between VR and AR?
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To keep it simple:
VR = 100% virtual environment
AR = virtual objects placed in real world environment
VR = 100% virtual environment
AR = virtual objects placed in real world environment
Pokemon Go is a well known example of AR. You see the real world with a virtual item in it (in this case the pokemon)
example: https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.c...c/field/image/2017/12/arplus-torchic-hero.jpg
example: https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.c...c/field/image/2017/12/arplus-torchic-hero.jpg
Augmented reality - Wikipedia
The interesting thing about augmented reality and Pokemon Go, is for PG, it’s just making you travel to a gps location where things then pop up in the game environment on your phone’s screen. I assume at some point in the future, your augmented vision will be able to interact with virtual objects and creatures without the computer/phone screen.
Until they can do a full immersive version of VR, AR will always be a better experience. Current VR tech is pretty much as garbage as it was in the late 80s/early 90s.
Clearly you have not played Half-Life: Alyx on a decent PC with a decent VR HMD.
And yes, I used a VR headset in the Nineties powered by a $200K SGI Onyx at Epcot Center in Disneyworld (the Aladdin magic carpet ride).
Alien Isolation in VR is pretty slick too.
Half Life: Alyx is extremely immersive, this is true. There's so much detail it's pretty believable, and it's got some neat interactivity - if you have Valve Index controllers, you can reach out with your real hand, grab a beer can by just closing your fist around the controller, crush the can by squeezing harder on the controller, and then throw that crushed can at pigeons just like you'd throw anything in real life. But it doesn't look real, nobody would be confused that it's real life, it looks like you are inside a high end video game, even on the best VR headset.
Flight Simulator 2020 is a lot better, that one COULD look almost perfectly real...if a PC existed powerful enough to handle it
On my powerful gaming PC, with an RTX 3070 and an AMD 5600X, I have to turn the quality down quite a bit to get it running at a reasonable framerate in VR.