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.