VR vs AR

 

What is VR?

VR stands for virtual reality is the simulation of a 3D image of any environment that allows interaction in a physical way. VR has been created to allow people to escape reality and make it feel like you are in the game.

What is AR?

AR stands for Augmented reality is a combination of real life and virtual reality. Devices using augmented reality allow you to interact with other people whilst using a device to browse the internet, use maps and control your music.

Examples of VR & AR

One of the most commonly talked about AR devices is Google Glass. Google Glass was created as an experiment by Google to see how well AR can be integrated with people’s ordinary lives.This allows customers to use features such as maps, messages and music with touch gestures and voice commands.

Virtual reality devices have increased in popularity with projected sales expected to reach over 2 billion pounds in 2016! Oculus Rift being one of the standout devices, They allow gamers to feel fully immersed in their favourite virtual worlds and make you feel apart of the game. Samsung and HTC have also released their own virtual reality headsets with a number of other companies set to follow suit.

Game Examples – Most Popular

There are a wide variety of games that are available using both AR and VR, most notably AR game Pokemon Go, which has been downloaded by millions of people worldwide and can be found on a large number of iOS and Android devices.

There will be a wide variety of game releases this year for virtual reality consoles with Minecraft coming to XBOX and Gran Turismo Sport and Final Fantasy XIV coming to Playstation. This will give AR a run for its money.

Which companies are backing VR or AR?

So what companies are backing VR and AR I hear you ask? Tim Cook, Apple CEO has stated that he thinks AR has a big future and will overtake the use of VR. Although, with no known plan of Apple using VR or AR this may just be their way of putting a damper on their big competitors virtual reality systems.

Snapchat is also a large backer of augmented reality with their popular filters that allow you to change your selfie. They provide different filters everyday for users to keep their selfies unique and even allows you to get your mates involved. This is one of the best uses of AR to date and has given Snapchat a new lease of life and helped it to continue growing its user base.

Microsoft Hololens augmented reality headset is being used in the NASA Kennedy Space Centre to simulate what it feels like to be on Mars. This augmented reality experience is one of many that are likely to be introduced at attractions over the next few years.

Alton Towers are going to take virtual reality to a new level by introducing VR into their new ride Galactica opening later this year. This will be an interesting development and could change the way theme park rides are made!

Over the past year both Samsung and HTC have released their own virtual reality headsets that can be used with apps on their devices. The Samsung Gear costing around £68. The device has been created by Oculus and works alongside phone apps, films and videos and adds a new dimension to your phone.

The HTC Vive costs from £759 and allows you to play games from the Steam collection and works alongside Valve providing users a wide range of games that fully immerse you into the gameplay. HTC Vive has currently been penned as one of the best virtual reality headsets on the market alongside the Oculus Rift range.

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Five Incredible HoloLens VR/AR Videos let you eye-opening

Over the last few weeks we’ve seen some really impressive demonstrations of the capabilities of Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality all-in-one headset.

We found the below five videos (plus the two linked above) do an incredible job showing the potential not just for HoloLens, but for a mixed reality future living with AR and VR technology as part of our everyday lives. If you don’t already believe AR and VR are poised to change our lives these videos should help change your mind.

FOR HOUSEHOLD CHORES

This demo shows a person wearing HoloLens and using it to insert a virtual sphere inside of a bush to provide guidelines to trim it into that shape. Essentially, it’s taking the old idea of a coloring book — where you try to stay inside the lines —  and applying to the 3D world around us.

FOR GAMES

We’ve seen a number of games demonstrated on HoloLens, such as Fragments and Young Conker which come bundled with the devkit, but seeing a 3D emulation of Super Mario Bros. is one of the most eye-opening yet. HoloLens has a relatively limited field of view when compared to VR headsets, so you’ll only ever see virtual objects floating in a rectangle in the middle of your vision. This poses some very challenging design problems to game designers. Many ideas that work great in a fully immersive VR world — where your mind believes you are somewhere else — just wouldn’t work very well playing in the real world with virtual objects inserted into a small portion of it.

Classic video games like Super Mario Bros., however, were built for square and rectangular screens. This may make them the perfect fit for a few minutes of fun distraction inside HoloLens.

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FOR SIGNAGE

From billboards and street signs to the fronts of buildings, words meet our eyes almost everywhere we look and it’s kind of astonishing how ugly most of these words actually look when you read them. Typography sets apart easy-to-understand text from something that’s frustrating to read. The $3 app Typography Insight by Dong Yoon Park offers a pretty compelling demonstration of how you could see how a particular type style will look before it gets put in the real world. Say goodbye to ugly signs.

FOR LEARNING

A number of similar videos are on Youtube, but this particular demonstration shows how HoloLens can be used to teach someone to play the piano. It overlays which keys to press directly onto the keyboard itself in a rolling fashion similar to Guitar Hero.

FOR MOTION CAPTURE

This last video seen on Twitter shows how HoloLens could be used to visualize a motion capture performance while it’s underway. A robotic figure repeats the same moves as the performer, potentially allowing filmmakers or game designers to more carefully direct performances that could bring more life out of the digitized character.

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BAIDU Is Launching A New AR Platform For Smartphones

Baidu is China’s leading search engine and the AR program it is pioneering is called DuSee. The plan is to integrate DuSee with leading Baidu apps, including the search engine itself, to create powerful, immersive virtual reality experiences.

Andrew Ng, the company’s chief scientist, said of DuSee, “the path to better AR is through better AI…The platform uses sophisticated computer vision and deep learning to understand and then augment a scene.”

This emphasis on computer vision will pave the way toward what Baidu considers to be the next generation of AR in the world. Apps like Pokemon GO, while popular and fun, merely juxtapose one digital image on top of the real world image with very little thought given to the context of the real world. Baidu’s emphasis on computer vision and deep learning hope to take this process to greater levels of interaction.

“The next generation of AR apps will use AI to understand the 3D environment and create virtual objects that have rich interactions with the user and the real world. We are excited about future directions such as integrating AR with speech recognition and natural language processing,” said project Director Yuanqing Lin.

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