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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

                  Augmented  Reality  (AR)  and Virtual  Reality  (VR)  bridge the digital and real worlds. Both these
                  technologies find the greatest use in entertainment, sports gaming, close interactive eye to eye
                  communication and aided shopping experiences. Imagine sitting at home and browsing through a
                  store in London where you can see and feel the merchandise you wish to buy. This technology is also
                  used in education. Imagine being a live participant in a historical battle or a student of anatomy in
                  medical school. You can really feel the battle or touch the organs.

                  Augmented Reality

                  Augmented Reality is a technology  that  superimposes
                  sounds, images and text on the real world that we can
                  see. Images are created by developers within applications
                  that blend in with content in the real world.
                  AR is used in:

                      creating an  imaginary  world  for  the  purpose of
                     entertainment and gaming, for example, 3D movies,
                     video games, etc.
                      training  software  and people  to  work  in  real-life
                     environments by creating a simulation of the reality,
                     for example,  ight simulators for pilots.
                  Examples of AR experiences include Snapchat lenses and the game Pokemon Go. Disney coloring
                  book with AR has a character in the book to colour. The app uses the camera to detect the character
                  that was coloured and recreates the character in a 3D form on the screen. Google Glass created
                  in 2013 is an example of wearable AR interface. It helps the user remain focussed on the work. It
                  displays on the user s glass screen through a small projector. It responds to voice commands to
                  activate an application any time










                                  Snapchat             Disney Coloring book             Google Glass

                  Virtual Reality

                  Virtual Reality is a technology that creates a complete virtual world that users can interact with. In
                  this world, you can experience places as if you were actually there. While using virtual reality, the
                  user almost always wears VR devices such as HTC Vive or Google Cardboard. These devices have
                  eye-covering headset and headphones to completely replace the real world with the virtual one.
                   sing     imulator devices, surgeons can develop their surgical skills through simulation on digital
                  patients and architects can create a walk-through model of their projects.






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