AR vs VR: what is the difference?

By: RITIK KUMAR, UID- 20BBA2547

Virtual reality and augmented reality, what do you know about it? It is a legitimate question
whose answer must start from scratch. The modern/today's information technologies over
the past decades have significantly accentuated the human being's ability, making it
possible to interact in a few clicks with a quantity of information that, until recently, wasn't
even available in the largest libraries on the planet. All this, of course, has had incredible
impacts on our personal and working lives. Traditional ICT, however, has a limit that cannot
be overcome: the human being, in nature, is used to interacting with three-dimensional
reality. At the same time, the immense volume of data that today can determine our
decisions and our actions remain beyond a two-dimensional screen — a limit that,
sometimes, unleashes our frustration with PCs and all hardware devices in general. The
problem is more and more accentuated every day by the impetuous growth of the mass of
existing information, in turn, generated by the increasing presence of billions of intelligent
and interconnected products all over the world, which risks making our frustration more
acute.

Fortunately, there is an increasing spread of virtual reality and augmented reality

applications to the rescue. So, let's try to understand what they are.

What is augmented reality?

As the definition says, in Augmented Reality (AR), the computer uses sensors and algorithms
to determine the position and orientation of a camera. AR technology, through a computer,
create objects in 3D graphics and orients them as they would appear from the camera,
finally superimposing the images generated on those of the real world. In essence,
therefore, augmented reality transforms huge masses of data and analytics into images or
animations that are superimposed on the real world. In combination with IoT data, AR
applications are leading numerous companies to completely redefine the way they design,
manufacture, sell, manage, and support products. Making the phenomenon clear to the
general public was the Pokémon Go application, which for the first time, demonstrated the
potential of augmented reality.

What is virtual reality?

Similar but distinct to AR is the so-called Virtual Reality (VR - Virtual Reality), which
presupposes the use of information technologies to create a simulated environment. Unlike
other traditional user interfaces, VR places the user within an experience: instead of viewing
a screen in front of them, users are immersed and able to interact with virtual 3D worlds in
which they can be simulated all the senses. So, what is the fundamental difference between
virtual reality and augmented reality? Simple: augmented reality represents the real world
enriched with virtual objects. Virtual reality, on the contrary, is a completely virtual world.
In contrast to real world virtual world will way to advance if we develop it and advance the
humanity with the help of virtual world. Wee can improve our production ratio with cost
effective and with creative way to advance it from the idea we got from the virtual reality. If
we talk about in term of games it will boost our economy and encourage the young ones to
help the country and help themselves with help of games they can earn money with coins
the possess in game and the level they are in games they will get monthly wages according
to that. If the production class players come up with any idea which help country to flourish
in real life then can get the additional benefits according to their achievements an
accomplish many things in reality as well