VIRTUAL

REALITY

BY YAVUZHAN AKYİĞİT
 What is virtual reality?

History of VR

Main applications of VR
What is VR
• Virtual Reality (VR) is the use of computer
technology to create a simulated
environment. Unlike traditional user
interfaces, VR places the user inside an
experience.
• Instead of viewing a screen in front of them, users are immersed and
able to interact with 3D worlds. This environment is perceived
through a device known as a Virtual Reality headset or helmet.
History of VR
• If we focus more strictly on the scope of virtual reality as a means of creating
the illusion that we are present somewhere we are not, so we can even start
with the 360-degree murals (or panoramic paintings) from the nineteenth
century. These paintings were intended to fill the viewer’s entire field of
vision, making them feel present at some historical event or scene.
History of VR:
1929 – Link Trainer The First Flight
Simulator
1930s – Science fiction story predicted VR
1960 – The first VR Head Mounted Display
1961 Headsight – First motion tracking
HMD
1965 – The Ultimate display by Ivan
Sutherland
1966 – Furness’ Flight Sim
1968 – Sword of Damocles
1969 – Artificial Reality
1972 – GE Builds a Digital Flight Sim
1975 – Krueger’s VIDEOPLACE
1977 – The MIT Movie Map
1979 – The McDonnel-Douglas HMD
1982 – Sayre Gloves
1985 – VPL Research is Founded
1986 – Furness Invents the Super Cockpit
1987 – Virtual reality the name was born
1989 – NASA Gets Into VR
1991 – Virtuality Group Arcade Machines
1991 – Medina’s VR Mars Rover
1992 – The Lawnmower Man
1993 – SEGA announce new VR glasses
1994 – The Sega VR-1
1995 – Nintendo Virtual Boy
1997 – Landmark VR PTSD Treatment
1999 – The Matrix
2007 – Google Brings Us Street View
2010 – Street View Goes 3D and the Oculus is Prototyped
2012 – The Oculus Kickstarter
2014 – Facebook Buys Oculus and Sony Announced their VR
Project
2016–2017 – All Hell Breaks Loose
2018 – The Half-dome HMD is Announced
2018 – Standalone VR Rises, Mobile VR Dies
2019 – VR is Shifting Rapidly
1950s – Morton Heilig’s Sensorama • 1968 – Sword of Damocles
1950s – Morton Heilig’s Sensorama
• In the mid 1950s cinematographer Morton Heilig developed the
Sensorama (patented 1962) which was an arcade-style theatre
cabinet that would stimulate all the senses like 3D display, sounds,
smells, and it had a vibrating chair.
 1968 – Sword of Damocles

• In 1968 Ivan Sutherland and his student Bob Sproull created the
first VR / AR head mounted display (Sword of Damocles) that was
connected to a computer and not a camera. It was a large and scary
looking contraption that was too heavy for any user to comfortably
wear and was suspended from the ceiling.
VR applications:
Although this innovative technology
1. Automotive has been
industry 11. Education
12. Sports
traditionally associated with the gaming
2. Healthcare 13. Art and industry,
design
it is amazingly being applied
3. Retail
4.Tourism
in various fields
14. Events to
and conferences
15. Well-being
manipulate physical5. Real
surroundings.
estate VR
16. allows its
Social
6. Architecture 17. Charity
users to experience7.the real environment
Gambling 18. Marketingin more
immersive ways. 8.Development
Learning and 19. Recreation
20. Law enforcement
9. Recruitment 21. News and journalism
10. Entertainment
The most important ones are:

1. Education
1.Education:
2. Military
Virtual
3. reality,
Medicine or VR, is taking off in
education
4. with an increasing
Entertainment
number of schools adopting the
technology.
VR allows students to experience
destinations from across the world
without ever having to leave the
classroom.
2.Military:
One of the fields where virtual
reality has been adopted is in the
military. VR is being put to different
uses in the military. It is used to train
soldiers in a simulated battlefield.
This gives soldiers the opportunity
to learn without the risk of being
killed or injured.
3. Medical Field:
a. Training new surgeons
Performing an operation for the
first time is a very daunting task
for a surgeon. So they can
practice with VR.
b. VR for pain and anxiety c. VR for the solution of
some disease like:
A pediatric burn patient uses
virtual reality to distract from • Cancer
pain during physical therapy • Parkinson
exercises at Shriners Children
Hospital in Galveston, Texas.
4. Entertainment:
People spend a lot of time and money on video
games, social networks, cinema, amusement parks,
music concerts, and sports games. Most likely, virtual
reality will not replace these entertainments, but it
can make them more inclusive and immersive.
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