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2. Virtual reality - Wikipedia

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   Virtual reality ( VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games ), education (such as medical, safety or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings).

3. Virtual reality headset - Wikipedia

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   Virtual reality headset. A virtual reality headset (or VR headset) is a head-mounted device that uses 3D near-eye displays and positional tracking to provide a virtual reality environment for the user. VR headsets are widely used with VR video games, but they are also used in other applications, including simulators and trainers.

4. Reality - Wikipedia

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   Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-simulated environment that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds. Reality-virtuality continuum. The virtuality continuum is a continuous scale ranging between the completely virtual, a virtuality, and the completely real: reality.

5. Immersion (virtual reality) - Wikipedia

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   Immersion into virtual reality (VR) is the perception of being physically present in a non-physical world. The perception is created by surrounding the user of the VR system in images, sound or other stimuli that provide an engrossing total environment.

6. Extended reality - Wikipedia

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   Extended reality ( XR) is an umbrella term to refer to augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR). The technology is intended to combine or mirror the physical world with a " digital twin world" able to interact with it, [1] [2] giving users an immersive experience by being in a virtual or augmented environment.

7. Virtual reality applications - Wikipedia

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   Virtual reality is being applied to a wide range of medical areas, including medical education, training, surgery and diagnostic assistance for heath staff. For patients it is a good way of using it for their rehabilitation and training. [12] VR began to appear in rehabilitation in the 2000s.

8. Augmented reality - Wikipedia

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   Augmented reality ( AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated 3D content. The content can span multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. [1] AR can be defined as a system that incorporates three basic features: a combination of real and virtual worlds ...

9. Virtuality (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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   Deleuze used the term virtual to refer to an aspect of reality that is ideal, but nonetheless real. An example of this is the meaning, or sense, of a proposition that is not a material aspect of that proposition (whether written or spoken) but is nonetheless an attribute of that proposition. [2] In Bergsonism, Deleuze writes that "virtual" is ...