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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. Computer-mediated reality - Wikipedia

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    Computer-mediated reality refers to the ability to add to, subtract information from, or otherwise manipulate one's perception of reality through the use of a wearable computer or hand-held device [1] such as a smartphone. Mediated reality is a proper superset of mixed reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality, as it also includes, for ...

  5. The Role of Augmented Reality in Medicine - WebMD

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    The augmented reality technology included a headset with a display the doctors could see through to the person. It allowed them to project images from X-rays or CT scans, for example, onto the ...

  6. Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy: What to Know - WebMD

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    Virtual reality (VR) uses technology to swap real-life environments with made-up ones that look real. That’s called simulation. Exposure therapy helps you face your fears in a safe environment ...

  7. Microsoft HoloLens - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. Microsoft HoloLens is an augmented reality (AR) / mixed reality (MR) headset developed and manufactured by Microsoft. HoloLens runs the Windows Mixed Reality platform under the Windows 10 operating system. Some of the positional tracking technology used in HoloLens can trace its lineage to the Microsoft Kinect, an ...

  8. What to Know About Robotic Surgery - WebMD

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    Augmented and virtual reality training ... specific to their patients before doing them in real life. Using augmented reality (AR), doctors can put real-time patient images onto 3D models to ...

  9. Virtual reality - Wikipedia

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    Augmented reality (AR) is a type of virtual reality technology that blends what the user sees in their real surroundings with digital content generated by computer software. The additional software-generated images with the virtual scene typically enhance how the real surroundings look in some way.