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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT VR


  • Travel companies are using virtual reality to allow customers to visit places and determine if they wish to visit in real life.
  • Although virtual reality can be used for gaming, it is also becoming popular for other purposes such as allowing a person to feel as if they are in a virtual reality documentary.
  • Virtual reality is being used in health care. It allows medical students to practice dangerous procedures and gain experience without actually operating on a human. It can also help surgeons determine the best point of entry for surgeries.
  • Scientists with NASA can use virtual reality to enable robot arms in space to perform gestures that are being done on earth with an operator.
  • Militaries are now using virtual reality to train soldiers in ways that will help better prepare them when they are actually deployed in combat.
  • Oculus VR is a company that launched a Kickstarter project to release virtual reality goggles in the 2010s. Their goggles brought a lot of interest to virtual reality after many years of not a lot of interest by industry or consumers.
  • With the use of Oculus, people are able to travel via virtual reality without actually having to pack, fly, and spend the money on a real trip.
  • Virtual reality can be used to simulate a number of experiences and enhance them.
  • Facebook purchased Oculus VR for $2 billion in 2014.
  • There are more than 230 companies working on virtual reality products.
  • Facebook is estimated to have more than 400 employees working on developing VR. Other companies known to have VR in development include Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Google.
  • Movies and sports and other events will be viewable in VR as technology continues to advance.
  • Virtual reality has been added to some theme park roller coasters since 2015.
  • There are five individuals that have contributed greatly to the title virtual reality including Morton Heilig, Myron Krueger, Ivan Sutherland, Douglas Engelbart, and Jaron Lanier.


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