the components of mixed reality

"Mixed Reality" is a setting inside which combined virtual and real parts interact and both are important. For instance, when an image of a participating person's head or hand appears three-dimensionally on a screen and interacts with artificially-generated icons, this is mixed reality. Further developments on virtual reality at Studio 360 .

Virtual Reality (VR) is a three-dimensional world within which a human can interact comprised of artificially-artificially constructed elements and is brought to life by a sufficiently high level of computer intelligence to seem realistic to the human participant. To be enveloping, a world must engage a sufficient quantity of human senses with sufficient believability to provide the human participant a feeling of engaging a natural environment. With today's technologies, this degree of interaction frequently spans images filling most of the human range of sight with reasonable resolution, relatively high performance sound, and at least rudimentary human-computer interaction based on hand and head motion. More higher-order types of haptic (touch) interaction engaging motion by rest of the human body and different senses such as taste and smell can improve realism, but usually are not needed to meet the definition of virtual reality given today's technology. The base-level specifications for Virtual Reality will probably grow as technology advances. Also see site Virtual Tours Overland Park, Kansas .

See also: Holographic Virtual Reality for more developments.