In simple terms, Virtual Reality is a fully immersive computer-simulated environment that gives the users the feeling of being in that environment instead of the one they are actually in

1. What Is Virtual Reality & Its
Applications?
“In simple terms, Virtual Reality is a fully immersive computer simulated environment
that gives the users the feeling of being in that environment instead of the one they
are actually in”

2. What is Virtual Reality?
Virtual means ‘Near or Implied’ & Reality means the state of things as they actually
exist, thus virtual reality is nothing but ‘Near Reality’. Virtual Reality is a simulation of
a physical entity into a virtual or imaginary environment that is created using
software’s or programs that defy beliefs of a user compelling him/her to accept it as
actual reality.
Definition of Virtual Reality
“In simple terms, Virtual Reality is a fully immersive computer simulated
environment that gives the users the feeling of being in that environment
instead of the one they are actually in”

3. We experience the world through our senses and perceptions using our five senses viz touch, taste, sight, smell
and hearing all this is done with the help of our incredible brain. In simple words, our entire sense of reality is
due to the combination of sense making mechanism of the brain and sensory information that we perceive.
Virtual Reality actually exploits and plays with the sensations & perceptions of our brain by simulating an
artificial environment which actually doesn’t really exists but our brains thinks that it does it’s just like make
belief
In order to feel the sensation of immersion in virtual reality, it requires low latency and a high frame rate at
least 95 frames/sec. Pixel persistence lower than 3 ms is required or else the user might feel sick.

4. Applications of Virtual Reality
The first thing which comes to our mind when we think about virtual reality is gaming, we
immediately imagine a human being with a headgear on his face. But applications of VR are
not limited to just gaming. Remember Keanu Reeves in the matrix it seemed as a fantasy at
that time but today that isn’t really a fad or fantasy anymore its hardcore physical technology
which is been used by Engineers, Architects, Archaeologists, Doctors, Scientists, Military and
the list can go on.
 Gaming
HMD or head mounted displays are one of the virtual technology devices used for virtual
gaming experiences. Along with this, devices such as Wii Remote, PlayStation Move/Eye,
Kinect are based on virtual reality which tracks and sends motions inputs of the players to the
game. Also, the concept of gamification is being used in order to implement VR to encourage
fitness.
 Engineering & Architecture
Virtual reality plays a major role in simulating 3-dimensional models of infrastructures,
designs which can provide a real-life experience of the physical designs or infrastructures
beforehand. This helps is reducing considerable costs and expenses which can be incurred in
a prototype. Examples: Cars, Infrastructures, Machines, airplanes etc. can be virtually
designed and pretested for factors such as aerodynamics and sustainability and safety etc.

5.  Doctors & Medical
Whether we accept it or not but our brain plays a major role in the physical well-being of our health.
Healthcare industry is very efficiently using VR technology to aid and treat patients both physically
mentally. Technology such as Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is majorly used to treat anxiety
disorders such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) & Phobias. Virtual operations & treatments
are being able to execute with the help of Telemedicine (Monitoring, Examining & Operating patients
remotely) e.g. da Vinci Surgical Robot developed in 2009, has brought minimally invasive surgery to
more than 3 million patients worldwide till date.
 Education & Training
Do you remember X-Men’s Danger Room? For those who don’t know, the Danger Room in X-Men
a fictional training facility where all the X-Men’s use to train it was nothing but a reincarnation of the
mansion which somehow is similar to the Virtual Reality technology seemed far-fetched at that time,
right?
Doctors & Scientists today are using virtual reality on similar lines but their Danger Rooms are called
simulators viz Surgical Simulators, Flight Simulators and VR Simulators etc. Surgical simulators provide
the medical students or doctors with a virtual environment where they can perform surgeries without
harming anyone. Similarly, flight simulator and VR simulators provide astronauts and pilots with a
virtual experience of an actual flight experience. Space agencies like NASA and JAXA ESA, ISRO etc.
have been using VR since years now immersive VR technology helps astronauts to experience zero
gravity and actual space environment here itself on earth.
The above are the few examples of how VR technology is used but the mainstream potential of the
technology is limitless and seamless. Along with these uses the technology has major
in the field of Cinema and Entertainment, Research, Health & Safety, Heritage & Archaeology, Fine
Marketing, & Music & Concerts etc.

6. Virtual Reality has become considerably cheaper and affordable its applications are
both amusing and serious. We don’t know what we will get to experience in the
future with the aid of Virtual Reality but one thing is for sure it is definitely going to
be mesmerizing😊

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