A brief overview of Virtual Reality. Target audience is VR designers.

1. Adopted from Understanding Virtual Reality book What is Virtual Reality?

2. Objective: Communicate

3. VR is a media What is VR?

5. VR is a New media What is VR?

7. Dennō Coil

8. Elements of VR

9. Virtual World Second Life, Pandora etc Imaginary Space

10. Elements of VR

11. Immersion Sense of being in an environment Physical, Mental

12. Elements of VR

13. Sensory Haptic (touch), location, orientation Sensory Feedback

14. Elements of VR

15. Immersion Games, Collaborative Environment Interactivity

16. Virtual Reality If we combine, VR is a medium composed of interactive computer simulations that sense the participant’s position and action and replace or augmented the feedback to one or more senses, giving the feeling of being mentally immersed or present in a simulation (Virtual World)

17. What is Augmented Reality, Artificial Reality, Tele presence or Cyberspace

18. Is it Cyberspace? Source: Understanding Virtual Reality Book

19. What is VR? VR is a Newmedium Of Communication That requires Physical Immersion That Provides Synthetic Sensory Stimulation That Can mentally immerse the user Is Interactive