Está en la página 1de 1

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds. Most current virtual reality environments are primarily visual experiences, displayed either on a computer screen or through special stereoscopic displays, but some simulations include additional sensory information, such as sound through speakers or headphones. Virtual reality is often used to describe a wide variety of applications commonly associated with immersive, highly visual, 3D environments. The development of CAD software, graphics hardware acceleration, and head mounted displays, database gloves, and miniaturization have helped popularize the notion. In 2010 it is already possible to create a 100% realistic simulation of sound and vision, albeit on a very limited scale. The main limiting factor at the moment in the way of full-immersion visual-auditory VR is computer processing speed. VR requires real-time processing of a large amount of data to construct a dynamic simulated representation of an environment on the fly. The increased completeness will eventually make the virtual world real. In that virtual reality a "player" will be able to race, shoot, socialize, control armies, play with "physically real" objects and do a very large subset of what is possible in reality.

También podría gustarte