Meta Universe becomes a new thing we hear every day, and many people think it is the future of business, social interaction, real estate and gaming. After putting on VR glasses, you will feel an immersive experience in the virtual world where you can interact with your social circle or enjoy playing the meta-universe game. The vivid experience of
is possible because of several technologies surrounding the metaverse we know today. If you take a sneak peek, you will find the technological applications that inject life into the metaverse. These technologies include virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), collectively known as extended reality (XR). These are the basic principles that shape the metaverse, and in order to understand how they support the metaverse experience, we will break down these concepts in this article.
Virtual Reality (VR)
As the name suggests, virtual reality is the "reality" experienced in the virtual world, also known as a computer-generated environment. The term VR is often used to express vivid simulations in virtual worlds, which can be social interactions in video games or fictional worlds. This experience is activated using special VR glasses and is provided by special handheld devices to interact with objects.
This immersive experience is based on two main aspects; the first is very basic, the 3D perception of objects, and the way you see it from a first-person perspective in the digital world. Another element of the
VR experience is seamlessly adjusting objects as you move and look around in the simulation. This allows other fixtures in the metaverse, such as buildings, cars and any moving objects, to vary depending on the way you turn your head. Even if you observe your hands in the virtual world, you will see them moving at the same time as the way you move your hands in reality.
In addition to the headphones located in VR glasses, your brain also takes the perception of virtual interaction as a holistic experience, as if you are interacting in the real world.
augmented reality (AR)
Although the VR experience can be regarded as being completely isolated from the real world, augmented reality focuses on adding virtual objects to the real world. The AR experience is designed to enhance the physical world by transforming digital assets and avatars into worlds to use virtual reality.
For example, Pokémon Go (" Pokémon Go") is a game that uses augmented reality in a revolutionary way, so it has become so popular. Players around the world use their smartphones to find collectibles through real-world maps and capture Pokémon in national parks or streets.
AR is still in its infancy as far as products are available, and you can find very limited devices or tools that provide an AR experience. Companies like Microsoft are leading the way in developing AR-powered devices, although their products and prospects still seem unclear.
Mixed Reality (MR)
When Microsoft introduced its HoloLens, it called it a "mixed reality" device, rather than a "augmented reality" commonly used by the media. In fact, "mixed reality" devices such as HoloLens and Magic Leap are different from augmented reality, and the two are different from virtual reality.
Some people use the term MR interchangeably with AR. However, it is fair to say that mixed reality is an improved application of augmented reality. Mixed reality uses both AR and VR and provides a brand new immersive experience. Mixed reality enables digital assets and fixtures to cover the physical world we see and allows real-time interaction between physical and enhanced objects. This is done by constantly gathering information about the physical world, processing them, and interacting perfectly with the way they change.
Basically, MR technology relies on interwoven physical and virtual worlds.
Extended Reality (XR)
Finally, Extended Reality is that XR is a combination of virtual reality, MR and AR, which refers to the collective interaction between AR, MR and VR technologies. It is the umbrella for all these technologies to provide an immersive virtual experience.This makes XR technology the backbone of the metaverse, where you can not only interact with other users in the virtual world, but also play games, attend workshops, invest and travel in the metaverse.
While some may argue that XR technology will eventually bring us into a virtual world without any physical contact and real-life participation, it is also possible to use these XR technologies to build a human-centric meta-universe, which is not essentially the dystopian , and the basic human needs are placed at the core of the meta-universe.
