Virtual and Augmented Reality

1. Mixed Reality is when Augmented reality elements react with real life elements such as in Pokémon go when the Pokémon jump up onto chairs.

2. Companies are careful to no innovate to much in this space due to consumers not being ready for radical change such as with google glass

3. Companies are working towards implementing augmented reality into everyday tasks such as in museums and through interactive displays

4. "Where the purpose of virtual reality is to generate a distinct and immersive world, augmented reality intends to add more information to the real world while you're engaged with it."(62) The differences between virtual and augmented reality

5. "Beyond virtual reality, mixed reality is also a valuable tool for extending real-life experiences into the past. We can save historical sites like Pompeii from being littered with informational plaques and navigation signs. offering augmented digital information instead."(70) How virtual reality and mixed reality can effect historical monuments and museums

6. VR is virtual reality where you are engulfed in an entirely virtual world

7. AR is Augmented reality where Virtual elements are created in you're world

8. "What is VR? It's a simulated experience, but that meaning requires a lot of caveats and technologies."(60)

9. "What makes MR a distinct subdiscipline is that MR technolgoy requires a detailed awareness of the surrounding world. It's not enough to have a video screen hovering in the air like a head-up display in MR, that video screen appears mounted to a particular wall."(64) What makes MR distinct

10. "Imagine starting a big web business in the mid-1990s. That's where we are on the curve. From games to travel to new shopping experiences and healthcare"(74() We are just in the beginning of the VR boom with new tech being developed the use of VR in our everyday life is only just starting