VIRTUAL REALITY

BY Abdul Sami Kharal Roll No: IT13-02

Definition What is Virtual Reality?

Virtual Reality is an Artificial Environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment On a computer.

Brief History Cinerama Widescreen film format (originally called vitarama) invented in 1939 by Fred Waller and Ralph Walker. This system was used by The Army Air Corps during WWII for anti aircraft training.

In 1950s, Flight simulators were built by the US Air Force to train student pilots.

In 1988, commercial development of VR began.

In 1991, first commercial entertainment VR system "Virtuality" was released.

In 1992 a method of the showing and testing of scientific visualizations was created.

Applications Education and Training – Training and education is done

through virtual reality because it can prepare you for many dangerous jobs and put the worker in real scenarios without the risk of them being hurt.

Movies - Virtual reality is applied in 3-D movies to try and immerse the viewer into the movie and/or virtual setting and environments.

Video Games - Virtual reality is evident in video games. Now you can physically interact with a game by using your body and motions to control characters and other elements of the game that years ago people would only imagine.

Driving simulator

Flight simulator

Ship simulator

Shooting simulator

Types of VR Technology's

Project Natal Its a new piece of technology that is under going. Project Natal proposes a new way of interacting with games. They propose that there system will not require any keyboards or controller.

It will function by the use of the user's voice and motions as the method for interacting with the system.

Future of Virtual Reality

The future of virtual reality is hard to predict but one thing’s for sure the world of entertainment is going to see a lot more of it. Virtual reality is starting to evolve into video games and movies.

Only time will tell.

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