Chapter 5 VR, AR and MR

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How do we Compare:
• Virtual reality (VR)
• Augmented Reality (AR)
• Mixed reality (MR)
Comparison…
• Virtual Reality (VR) encompasses immersive experiences and content via
a VR headset or HMD (head-mounted display).
• The content is 100% digital and computer-generated.
• The current reality is replaced with a new 3D digital environment in
which the user is isolated from the real world.
Comparison…
Some VR headsets manufacturers include technology giants such as:-
• Facebook (through their acquisition of Oculus),
• Google (with a series of Daydream headsets), HTC (VIVE),
• Samsung (Gear VR), and
• Windows (who have named their range of devices Windows Mixed Reality, even
though a number is VR-only enabled.)
Comparison…
There are three types of VR devices available these are:-
• Tethered,
• Stand-alone, and
• Smartphone VR
Augmented reality (AR)
• Overlays computer-generated content on top of the real world.
• It can superficially interact with the environment in real-time.
• Is primarily experienced via a wearable glass device or through
smartphone applications
Augmented reality (AR)…
• Augmented content doesn’t recognize or interact with the physical objects
within a real-world environment, however, it does enhance the user’s
experience
Augmented reality (AR)…
• Some of the categories of AR products are wearable AR glass (smart
glass), smartphone AR and other AR headsets
Mixed reality (MR)
Combines several technologies into one wearable device.
• Immersive media,
• spatial computing, and
• hybrid reality intertwine digital content while interacting with a user’s real-world environment.
• It allows for digital content to integrate, enrich and interact with the user’s real-world environment.
• MR lenses or headsets present an overlay of digital content that interacts with objects in the real
world in real-time.
• The products are, in most cases, in the research and development phase, but MR is viewed through
transparent wearable glasses
Mixed reality (MR)…
• Mixed Reality removes the boundaries between real and virtual worlds
using occlusion: the computer-generated objects can be visibly obscured
by objects in the physical environment from the user’s point of view
• Some of MR products are Microsoft's hololens, magic leaps and other MR
devices
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VR, AR, AND MR
• Virtual Reality: VR is content which is 100% digital and can be enjoyed

in a fully immersive environment.
• Augmented Reality: AR overlays digital content on top of the real-world.
• Mixed Reality: MR is a digital overlay that allows interactive virtual
elements to integrate and interact with the real-world environment.
DIFFERENCES…
• AR is a variation of the more known concept of Virtual Reality Technology (VR), which is often defined as
“the use of real-time digital computers and other special hardware and software to generate a simulation of
an alternate world or environment, which is believable as real or true by the users”.
• VR technology creates an environment in which the user feels and seems to be moving inside a computer-
created virtual world in the same way people move inside the natural environment; while immersed in the
virtual world, the user cannot perceive the real one which still surrounds him.
• On the contrary, AR allows the user to see the real world, augmenting it with superimposed virtual objects.
• In other words, while VR replaces reality, AR supplements it, creating an environment in which real and
virtual objects harmonically coexist.
• AR exploits users’ perceptual-motor skills in the real world, creating a special type of human-machine
interaction
Relation between AR and Telepresence
• In telepresence, the fundamental purpose is to extend the operator’s sensory-motor
facilities and problem-solving abilities to a remote environment.
• Virtual reality aims to achieve the illusion of presence within a computer simulation
whereas telepresence aims to achieve the illusion of presence at a remote location.
• AR can be considered a technology between VR and Telepresence.
• In VR the environment is completely synthetic
• In Telepresence it is completely real,
• In AR the user sees the real world augmented with virtual objects.
The architecture of AR systems
• Scene Generator
• Tracking System
• Display
AR Architecture
AR Architecture …
• AR System clients provide the user interface.
• The Mid Tier makes the user interface available in browsers.
• The AR System server implements the workflow functions, access
control, and flow of data into and out of the database.
• The database server acts as a data storage and retrieval engine
Functionally the AR System consists of three
environments
• Presentation
• Business Processing
• Data Storage
AR System clients
AR System clients can be broadly divided into
• user client and
• developer clients
Four major classes of AR
distinguished by their display type
• Optical SeeThrough,
• Virtual Retinal Systems,
• Video See-Through,
• Monitor Based AR and Projector Based AR
Optical See-Through HMD
Video See-Through HMD
Application of AR systems
• Education,
• Medical,
• Assistance,
• Entertainment

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