Virtual Reality is trending in the new world of entertainment. It is really amazing. Why wouldn't you like a thing that can help you be a real superhero? With it you can actually jump into a game's world or inside fairy tale - a dream of every child. You can lift a car like hulk or fire laser from your eyes and what not? You can do anything that an animator can animate (and today's animators can make anything). You can even fly like Ironman! And it feels just amazing. It helps you enter a new virtual world by projecting things on your eyes in such a way, that your brain thinks that those things are actually present in front of you! And using it has become really easy when the leading entertainment companies are releasing all kinds of headsets that are comfortable, easy to use and look amazing. Different companies are in a race to bring better and better VRs. Samsung has released its Gear VR with which, you can just place your phone inside the VR headset and connect the Micro USB port (which is placed near the USB port of your phone) and enter the VR world. Sony has its PlayStation 4 compatible VR which can help you enter a fascinating world of gaming. Both these sets offer an amazing experience and comfort. How Did it Start?Initial attempts to create a 3D looking environment only consisted of two images and two lenses to project images directly onto your eyes. Then attempts were made to create an environment, consisting of sound and visuals. It consisted of a cubical closed area in which you had to put your head. It would stimulate some videos and sounds to create a primitive VR environment. This was created by Morton L. Heilig in the mid 1950s and was named Sensorama. But the first Head Mounted Display which was similar to today's VRs was invented by The first Head Mounted Display which was similar to today's VRs was also invented by Morton L. Heilig in 1960. It didn't have motion tracking and consisted of 2 Television Tubes to project images to your eyes. So, the father of Virtual Reality is Morton L. Heilig. After this progress was made in making the VR better and better by incorporating motion tracking and better visuals. And then, finally we reached today's VRs. How Does it Work?The VR goggles are based on Head Mounted Displays (HMDs). This consists of one wide display or 2 separate displays in the front part. There are two lenses on at your eye position, which can be adjusted to be directly in front of your eyes (because distance between the eyes may vary from person to person). These lenses focus the two separate images on both of your eyes. These images are of a single object viewed from two separate positions - the positions of your eyes. When you view these two images from your two eyes, your brain thinks that you are viewing the object from your own eyes and it creates an illusion of the object actually present in front of you. This illusion can be used to make really fascinating animations look real. This simple theory can create amazing experiences. Visual illusions when combined with audio, teleports you to an entire new world. Gaming Looks So Real !!When you play games with a VR headset on your head, you just enter a new adventurous world and you can fulfill all your dreams of flying in the sky, fighting with dinosaurs, fighting in a war and live in a virtual world of you choice. Upgrade the Real WorldYou can even use the VR to upgrade the real world. Two Cameras can be placed in front of your VR. The video input can be read by a computer, which could in turn create some Virtual Objects in front of you. You could interact with them and play with them. You could play tennis with your friend with special effects like a big colourful boom on hitting the ball or placing some funny masks on your opponents face. You could even create some holograms in front of you and interact with them like a virtual screen in front of you. How good would it be if you could anytime bring your WhatsApp chat screen in front of you anytime. The holograms could be used to translate a sign board or a billboard when you go to another country. You could anytime create an environment where night stars have landed on earth. You could create amazing environment around you. VR has numerous real world applications to make life easy and amazing. Virtual SurgeriesA robot could be placed in hospitals. Doctors could wear a VR headset and some gloves and then a robot could mimic the actions of the doctor to perform the surgery. This would help doctors perform surgeries from anywhere and anytime. This could even be used to train doctors to perform surgeries in a virtual environment. Training Various People for TasksVirtual environments could be created to train people in virtual worlds for different tasks such as war, flying fighter jets etc. This would make training sessions cheap and more and more people could be trained together without much equipment needed. Virtual Reality Is GreatI haven't covered the entire theory behind VRs and what all can be done with it. I couldn't write everything in a short article. VRs are great and can be used to do almost anything. It is a great invention and could make humans even more amazing at doing things. You can find lots of more knowledge on the internet about VRs. This article has given you a glimpse of what VRs can do. Thanks for reading !! Do share and comment.
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