Virtual Reality

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Virtual Reality

• Presentation by Jacinta Mba
• CIS 121
• Professor Kearse

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What is Virtual Reality?????

• Virtual Reality- creating a virtual environment
  in which the user manipulates objects and
  surroundings to be of a real existence

• Virtual- existing in essence or effect, but not
  in actual form
• Reality- the state of being true
• Immersive- to become deeply involved

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Types of VR to be Discussed

• Immersive
• Text-based
• Augmented VR

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What is Immersive VR????

• A type of VR in which the user becomes immersed
  (deeply involved) in a virtual world. It is also
  a form of VR that uses computer related
  components.

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Components Of Immersive VR

• HMD or Head Mounted Display which is the helmet
  the user wear. Inside the helmet is a display
  that allows the image to remain in front of your
  eyeballs regardless of your head movements.

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Data Gloves

• A glove that can sense the position of the finger
  which can be used to control and interact with
  the virtual images being displayed.

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Types of Non-immersive VR

• Text-based VR when a reader of a certain text
  form a mental model of this virtual world in
  their head from the descriptions of people,
  places, and things.
• Augmented VR- the idea of taking what is real and
  adding to it in some way so that the user obtains
  more information from their environment.

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A Few Facts

• Virtual reality has been around since the 60s.
• Coined by Jaron Lanier
• One of the newest forms of technology in the
  computer world

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Everyday use of VR
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Questions

• What does HMD stand for?
• Name the different types of VR?
• Name the components that makes up Immersive VR?
• Bonus- Name another form of VR not mentioned in
  the presentation.

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Bibliography

• www.yahoo.com
• www.3dgraphics.about.com