Advantages Of The Immersive Reality Environment

"Imagination creates reality." - Richard Wagner
Imagine being able to work on interactive floating screens, as seen in the Ironman franchise, or even going back in time, to find yourself completely surrounded by dinosaurs! Advancements in Immersion Technologies, help in fabricating a number of Immersive Virtual Environments- opening up a broad spectrum of possibilities, where one could literally live out and experience their wildest sci-fi fantasies like never before. An Immersive Virtual Environment can be of either one of the two types, i.e., The Virtual Reality Environment or The Augmented Reality Environment.
Let us now understand the main difference in between the two. The Virtual Reality Environment (VR), is an immersive environment, where one is ‘transported’ into a whole new, computer-generated world, with no relationship with the real world environment. This is achieved by tricking the brain through our sensory organs, to think that we’ve been ‘teleported’ to the virtual world, which essentially translates into our new ‘reality’. VR was initially developed for The Air Force, for simulating various mid-air manoeuvres and other forms of training (Flight Simulator), to prevent actual million-dollar jets from being used, for the same. The Augmented Reality Environment on the other hand, is augmenting one’s real environment, by adding various computer generated interfaces & models into it. It is often added as an overlay on top of a real world object and is often