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WHY VR?

The VR everyone is excited about is the fully immersive variation that MVR offers, because this is the explorable and interactive 3D computer-created world that can take you to places reality might not allow for, like walking on Mars or driving around the mountains in a sports car.

Instead of sitting on the couch for hours with a controller, VR gaming enables you to be physically active while experiencing all the fun of traditional games. You may have to walk around the room and flap your arms around in order to complete and objective, and this helps in burning calories.

WHERE DID VIRTUAL REALITY
COME FROM?

VR as we know it today has been kicking around for decades. To give you an idea, the first head-mounted display wasn't an Oculus Rift, even though this is the device that arguably drove the VR renaissance, it was a device called Headsight that was created in the 1960s. But there were non-digital predecessors, all the way from 360-degree paintings that had the same aim: to take your experience to another place. VR is the wise guy in tech and not just because it is old. The technology has been used for all sorts of things over its 200 years from science and medicine to training pilots and helping architects present their latest skyscraper, allowing people to experience walking through it before a brick has been laid.

Yes, the current focus might be largely on gaming, but that's not all that VR is good for. VR has plenty of applications and this is only likely to expand as the technology develops further.

HOW DOES VIRTUAL REALITY WORK?

The virtual reality we have been referring to in this feature typically requires some form of a head-mounted display, a computer, smartphone or console that creates the 3D world and some form of input tracking, which could be hand tracking, voice or head.

There are currently a number of head-mounted displays all using this set-up including devices from Oculus, HP, HTC and PlayStation. As we mentioned, some of the VR devices contain a display, splitting the feed for each eye. In these cases, a cable (usually HDMI) will transfer the video from your PC or console to the screen(s) in front of your eyes. Other more affordable VR devices make use of your smartphone to display VR content.