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Virtual Reality
A simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world, typically accessed through special headsets.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Virtual Reality (VR) is a simulated interactive environment, often experienced through head-mounted displays, that immerses users in a digital world, providing sensory feedback for training, design review, and remote collaboration in industrial applications.
BACKGROUND
Augmented reality (AR), also known as mixed reality (MR), is a form of 3D human–computer interaction that overlays real-time 3D-rendered computer graphics into the real world through a display, such as a handheld device or head-mounted display. This experience is seamlessly interwoven with the physical world such that it is perceived as an immersive aspect of the real environment. In this way, augmented reality alters one's ongoing perception of a real-world environment, compared to virtual reality, which aims to completely replace the user's real-world environment with a simulated one. Augmented reality is typically visual, but can span multiple sensory modalities, including auditory, haptic, and somatosensory.
READ MORE ON WIKIPEDIASYNONYMS & ALIASES
- VR
- Immersive reality
- Computer-generated reality
- Simulated environment
USAGE NOTE
Used for training, prototyping, and remote maintenance in manufacturing.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Virtual Reality.
Develops the Digital Enterprise Suite, which leverages VR and digital twin technology for virtual commissioning, operator training, and simulation of entire production lines and processes.
Offers the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which uses VR for collaborative design reviews, virtual prototyping, ergonomic simulations of assembly lines, and manufacturing process planning.
Provides the Vuforia enterprise platform, which enables companies to create VR and AR experiences for worker training, guided service procedures, and product visualization in industrial settings.
Develops NVIDIA Omniverse, a real-time collaboration and simulation platform for creating and operating industrial digital twins, which can be experienced and manipulated in VR for factory design and process optimization.
Manufactures high-resolution, professional-grade VR/XR headsets specifically for industrial applications like virtual prototyping, complex training simulations, and engineering reviews in sectors such as automotive and aerospace.
Provides a leading real-time 3D development platform used by manufacturers to create custom VR applications for interactive training, digital twins, factory layout planning, and remote collaboration.
Offers IC.IDO, a specialized industrial VR software solution for immersive product reviews, assembly process validation, and ergonomic analysis, allowing manufacturers to test and optimize operations virtually.
Creates software like VRED and Navisworks, which are used to create immersive VR experiences from 3D CAD models for design validation, virtual prototyping, and construction/factory layout reviews.