AR and VR are the differences
- Augmented Reality means enhanced reality perception. The real world forms the basis and is still perceived. Using technological means is placed in an additional, artificial produced layer.
- The real world is supplemented by artificial things. Most of the time it is to be Seen.
- The Virtual Reality has to do nothing more with the reality. It is a computer-generated, non-existing world.
- From the actual reality, you get hardly anything, or nothing, as soon as you immerse yourself in virtual reality.
Reality as it is (image: Pixabay)
Augmented Reality - you need for the reality of expansion
- To expand the reality to provide additional information, you need a Smartphone and the appropriate Apps. The Apps need access to your camera to recognize the environment.
- With the Augmented Reality you can't get but only useful additional information to the real world. Also the entertainment is included in this technology brief. Pokemon Go was for a time a real Hype. Sure you already have people on the street saw the Ingress play.
- Another way is through so-called Augmented Reality glasses. Thus, the HoloLens from Microsoft holographically things in your living room to create. More and more manufacturers are pushing now with Augmented Reality Equipment on the market: Google Glass or Sony SmartEyeglass are just two examples.
Augmented Reality (Image: Pixabay)
VR: With this Equipment, you can immerse yourself in the virtual reality
- The entry into the virtual reality leads to a special VR goggles such as the Oculus Rift. These glasses encloses the eyes completely - the real reality will not be perceived visually.
- In the three-dimensional environment, the Computer-generated, you can look around freely and even interact with it. Often, the Smartphone takes over the function of the computer. The phone is then simply inserted into the glasses.
- Sensors in the glasses to perceive the movements of the user. Rotate so the head is completed, the artificial environment. The virtual reality adapts in real time to the movements.
Virtual Reality (Image: Pixabay)
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