Main types of VR (cont...)
- Distributed Virtual Environments
- Any of the above, where there are multiple users present in the world.
Sometimes called 'shared worlds'.
- Telepresence
- Control remote devices by mimicking actual events in the physical
world as they happen. Useful for performing operations in hazardous
environments or where it is otherwise inconvenient to be present in person.
- Augmented reality
- Combining the physical and virtual worlds, typically to annotate the
physical world or to provide missing information. For example, to recreate
the view that an operator of an aircraft would have seen if it had
not been foggy.
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