AR,VR and MR what is the difference?

Posted by Riya John on January 17th, 2018

Mixed reality combines with both the virtual and augmented reality. In the mixed reality, users navigate through the both the virtual and real environment at the same time. Here the virtual objects entered into the user’s real world space and augment their real world environment, making virtual interactions appears to be real. New environments and visualizations become possible, when both the virtual and augmented realities meet. 

Mixed Reality can cover the portion of completely real environment, and completely virtual environment.  Types of mixed reality include  Monitor based (non-immersive) video displays, A HMD showing video, Optical see-through HMD, Video see-through HMD, Monitor based AV system, Immersive or partially immersive AV, Partially immersive AV systems etc. The key term for mixed reality, or MR, is flexibility and for AR utility. Virtual is near and reality is what we experience as human beings. Augmented reality is a technology that works on computer vision based recognition algorithms to augment sound, video, graphics and other sensor based inputs on real world objects using the camera of your device.

 Everything that we know about our reality comes by way of our senses. Virtual reality is primarily experienced through two of the five senses: sight and sound. Simplest form of VR is the 3D image. The VR experience viewed in a VR head mounted display that doesn’t show part of the real world isn’t a MR experience. Similarly, looking at a live video feed of the real world on a TV screen that doesn’t involve any virtual imagery also isn’t a MR experience. However, almost any display that combines real and virtual imagery is a Mixed Reality experience. Mixed reality is a form of augmented reality that is somewhere between VR and AR. Mixed reality augments the real world with virtual objects that look as if they are really placed within that world. For more