Extended reality in the year 2020

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We all at some point at our lives may have been involved in extended reality industry. Even the person, who on the first thought has nothing to do with AI development industry, may use latest AR technologies on the daily basis. The thing is, Extended Reality (XR from now on) has taken over our lives in the shortest amount of time, yet people seem not to notice it.

XR is, basically, the term, that is intended to include all the latest technologies, made to “manipulate” the reality and to create more immersive computer experiences.

Probably, the most famous and popular type of XR nowadays is Virtual Reality (VR from now on). It seems that VR found its way into gaming industry – indeed, the first thing we think if we hear the term “VR” are headsets like Vive, Oculus Rift etc. VR happens to fully immerse the person using it into “alternative reality” through headset, using manipulations with visual and auditory senses.

Alternative reality (AR) is the type of XR that projects certain objects onto real ones through, for example, camera of the smartphone – exactly how Instagram masks work.

Mixed Reality (MR) is the most recent and interesting type of XR – it allows real and digital objects to interact- for example, you can “put” any virtual object on your table and interact with it as if you would do with real-life one. It should be mentioned, that even though MR has a great potential, at this point of time it requires a lot of processing power and is definitely not completely ready to be used in everyday life, yet companies still explore it in order to use in the future. ( look: Microsoft’s HoloLens)

Sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/08/12/what-is-extended-reality-technology-a-simple-explanation-for-anyone/#4f06a6a57249

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/extended-reality-xr/

5 thoughts on “Extended reality in the year 2020

  1. Padalka Andrii says:

    Oh, it is a great idea))

  2. Turtsevich Maksim says:

    As well as I know, Mixed Reality is highly developing right now. There are a few startups already appeared, that develop special high tec suits for a complete immersion in virtual reality. So, I hope that in a few years, we already will be able to solve certain problems with the help of VR and also to get new emotions from playing videogames.

  3. Sheremet Diana says:

    Given that technology is developing rapidly, I believe that in the near future XR will help us solve many problems.

  4. Fidura Maria says:

    It looks very interesting. I would love to try it one day

  5. Shamaev Miran says:

    XR… Cool stuff… I think this will be very useful for spheres related to architecture.

    Perhaps the gaming industry can make the most of this technology. I think XR support will soon appear in game engines namely in Unity. It’s so exciting. My mind is already generating ideas of projects that I can try to realize.

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