{"id":441120,"date":"2022-05-02T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-is-extended-reality-xr-and-will-it-replace-vr\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:30:55","slug":"what-is-extended-reality-xr-and-will-it-replace-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-extended-reality-xr-and-will-it-replace-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"#What Is Extended Reality (XR), and Will it Replace VR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f00d6d780a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f00d6d780a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-extended-reality-xr-and-will-it-replace-vr\/#%E2%80%9CWhat_Is_Extended_Reality_XR_and_Will_it_Replace_VR%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;What Is Extended Reality (XR), and Will it Replace VR?&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-extended-reality-xr-and-will-it-replace-vr\/#Ingredient_1_Virtual_Reality\" >Ingredient 1: Virtual Reality<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-extended-reality-xr-and-will-it-replace-vr\/#Ingredient_2_Augmented_Reality\" >Ingredient 2: Augmented Reality<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-extended-reality-xr-and-will-it-replace-vr\/#Ingredient_3_Mixed_Reality\" >Ingredient 3: Mixed Reality<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-extended-reality-xr-and-will-it-replace-vr\/#Will_XR_Replace_VR\" >Will XR Replace VR?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhat_Is_Extended_Reality_XR_and_Will_it_Replace_VR%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;What Is Extended Reality (XR), and Will it Replace VR?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage size-full wp-image-794655\" data-pagespeed-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vr-player-distorted.jpg?width=398&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1 400w, https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vr-player-distorted.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 400w, 1200w\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vr-player-distorted.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"Man using a VR headset, with a &quot;glitched&quot; 3D anaglyph effect.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/studio-shot-young-male-model-looking-1679176747\">misszin\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Extended Reality (XR) is a term that encompasses several technologies but also describes a\u00a0 spectrum of reality-changing methods including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR). XR brings all of these ideas under a single umbrella.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ingredient_1_Virtual_Reality\"><\/span>Ingredient 1: Virtual Reality<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Virtual Reality is probably the component of XR that most people are familiar with. Within the XR spectrum, VR stands alone as the only <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> that completely disconnects you from reality. At the very least, VR replaces your vision and hearing of the world around you with a simulates virtual world. More advanced forms of VR also include haptic feedback, which is the term used for the various forms of touch feedback.<\/p>\n<p>VR headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 let you instantly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to somewhere else entirely, letting you feel \u201cpresence\u201d in a virtual world separate from the one you\u2019re actually occupying.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ingredient_2_Augmented_Reality\"><\/span>Ingredient 2: Augmented Reality<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-794663\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pokemon-go-augmented-reality.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A smartphone showing the Pokemon Go mobile game in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/santa-cruz-california-july-12-2016-451598275\">Matthew Corley\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unlike VR, AR doesn\u2019t cut you off from the real world. Instead, it enhances the real world with digital images and sounds. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/75760\/pokemon-go-developer-niantic-teases-smart-glasses\/\">Pokemon Go<\/a> is quite possibly the most famous recent example. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> makes one of the famous pocket monsters appear on your phone screen, with the image from your camera overlaid behind it so that it looks like Pikachu is paying your a visit in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Pokemon Go is a particularly advanced implementation of AR. It\u2019s an example of \u201cmarkerless\u201d AR, where the camera doesn\u2019t have to see any sort of special object in the real world to activate the AR experience and keep track of the correct position and orientation for you. Most earlier AR experiences needed a marker, which could be a poster or a specially marked object.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to machine learning and machine vision technology, AR software can now recognize objects such as tables and walls, correctly projecting the images on those surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>AR is a broad concept and it also includes some things many people wouldn\u2019t expect. For example, a heads-up display (HUD) found in fighter planes and some modern cars would qualify as AR. As long as digital information is being projected on your view of the real world, it\u2019s AR.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ingredient_3_Mixed_Reality\"><\/span>Ingredient 3: Mixed Reality<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-794666\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/mr-headsets-cityscape.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"Business-people using MR headsets to examine and discuss a miniature city-scape.\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/two-business-persons-developing-project-using-390162811\">Yuganov Konstantin\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MR sounds a lot like AR at first glance. As the name suggests, it involves mixing the virtual and real worlds together. The key distinction between AR and MR is how MR has awareness of the real world to a degree that AR doesn\u2019t. The concepts are part of a continuum, but MR is easy to spot if you know what you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>MR experiences integrate digital objects into the real world so that they really appear to be there. Virtual objects can often pass behind real-world objects and even take the lighting of the room and shadows cast by real objects into account.<\/p>\n<p>One famous example of a mixed-reality headset is the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/109033\/microsoft-may-abandon-its-hololens-headset-despite-metaverse-push\/\">Hololens<\/a> from Microsoft. This high-end headset uses an advanced \u201cholographic processor\u201d and special sensors to project images onto a special clear visor. The field of view is quite narrow, but it\u2019s an impressive piece of tech.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, MR is already mainstream with headsets that have external cameras for motion tracking also integrate basic MR features. For example, the Oculus Quest can use its monochrome external tracking cameras to bring objects such as your real-world couch or keyboard into VR. Turning it into an MR experience.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Will_XR_Replace_VR\"><\/span>Will XR Replace VR?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Since XR has only become a more common term years after the second generation of modern VR (i.e. Oculus Rift) it\u2019s not surprising that people wonder if it\u2019s the next big thing to replace VR. The reality of it is that XR devices are most likely to offer a choice of VR, AR, or MR experiences. You might be in a full VR experience and then quickly switch over to an MR mode to take care of things in the real world before heading back to VR.<\/p>\n<p>Even if a device doesn\u2019t offer more than one type of XR, the concept of XR helps developers think differently about how they create content and experiences. 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