What is Virtual Reality? virtual reality is something that provide a realistic simulation of an environment, including three-dimensional graphics, by a computer system using interactive software and hardware. With a computer, virtual reality is experienced through two of the five senses through sight and sound.
The easiest way to tell a virtual reality is through 3-D, an image that can be explored throughout, means you can view it in 360 degrees by using the computer with the scroll of the mouse and then the direction of the images will moves with the direction that you drag. What makes it more realistic is the one devices that be able to let you wear and it will be able to let you feel the display images. A very good example of Virtual reality product is the latest product that we can see and promote by the Microsoft, that is the Microsoft HoloLens. Microsoft HoloLens is the first fully untethered, see-through holographic computer. It enables high-definition holograms to come to life in your world, seamlessly integrating with your physical places, spaces, and things. We call this experience mixed reality. Holograms mixed with your real world will unlock all-new ways to create, communicate, work, and play.
Microsoft HoloLens don’t really produce actual 3D iamges that everyone can see, we are not yet reach that kind of technology. Not like the technology we see in the movie, it’s shows images that only the wearer of the hololens can only see. It’s quite the size for a normal goggle. Microsoft Hololens can be also use for personal use or at a workplace it is convenient for a person who always depends on now days tech. Microsoft is not trying to bring the user of it into another world, but rather bring the wonders of a computer directly to the one you’re living in. Example like bringing the most popular game minecraft into your living room on the wall. What’s makes it convenient for the working place is that they can use it for communicate with each others with the images that project through their lens. With the use of the Hololens it is very to understand what are the others are trying to tells with the projection that is provided by the hololens when it’s actually connected to the internet, with this it enable to search through the net to look for the specific thing or what you have store on the storage to show it to the client itself or your working colleauge.
For me i think that Virtual reality is quite the technology that can help us to involve or get a better future in the coming days. But the requirement to actually made one of the hololens is quite costing. With the hardware and software that is needed in one technology, I think the amount of expenses is going to be high, at the end it’s not really affordable for everyone in the community or the society. Microsoft should think of a way that can reduce this to the minimum so that most of the people will be able to experience the Virtual reality. Virtual reality is actually a big thing in the coming future, so i hope that the hardware and the software will be a bit more affordable for everyone. and i hope that in the future more company will concentrate to develop a more consistent devices that can make the hololens a bit easier to carry around and lighter,smaller.
References:
TechTarget,2015, “Virtual Reality”, viewed 4 July 2015, <http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/virtual-reality >
CNET Microsoft Hololens January 24, 2015
http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-hololens-explained-how-it-works-and-why-its-different/
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