Strap on a big rectangular black headset on the head, and you can traverse a lost ship or play soccer in wembley. That’s what virtual reality (VR) headsets, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive has promised us.

Virtual reality refers to improved computer technologies that uses software and other important techniques to generate realistic images and other system, that can be used to replicate a real environment and stimulate an individual physical presence in this environment.

Concepts Behind Virtual Reality

Typically a person using these gadgets are able to feel and see a new generated or replicated environment. Take for example, you can take a dive into the deep sea without actually going there but still able to have the full experience.

The concepts behind this devices are based upon theories about a long held human desire to escape the boundaries of the ‘real world’ by embracing cyberspace. The idea is to be able to interact without the basic mouse and keyboard we use regularly on our daily life, but with virtual reality we can full immerse ourselves in a highly visual world which we explore by means of our senses.


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In recent months tech news has been flooded with so many information detailing the latest advancements in virtual and augmented reality. As awesome and innovative the virtual reality is, many still believe it is still in it’s early days that is largely because previous virtual reality-style efforts have flopped in the past.

But the latest crop of headsets are better and more promising than its predecessors, thanks to their much-improved graphics, head-tracking abilities.

Evolution of Virtual Reality

View-Master (1939)


The View-Master system was introduced in 1939 and was the beginning of what we today call Virtual reality. It was a perfect way to view landscape pictures.



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