From the course: Virtual Reality Foundations
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What is VR?
- Odds are you may never visit Mars or walk amongst dinosaurs or perform on stage with the Beatles. But with the latest wave in technology, you can have an experience as close to the real thing all within the comforts of your very own living room. Virtual Reality is opening doors to the long held human desire to escape, whether it's an escape from the current day to day situation or to escape the real world altogether. So what is Virtual Reality? To understand Virtual Reality, we need to break it into two definitions, psychological and technical. Unlike our day to day living of real reality, Virtual Reality simulates pieces of our world or imagined worlds. Emulation and perception are the two basic keys to Virtual Reality. Let's examine that for a moment. We all have sensory and perception systems. Our experience of everything, or reality, is a combination of sensory data and how we process that data to form our understanding or perception of what is happening, where it is happening…
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