Hi, welcome to the ZEDShed.
Today we're explaining the differences 
between AR and VR
Hi I'm Jess Wilde 
and this is the ZEDShed
Today I'm explaining to you the
differences between AR and VR technology.
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So, first things first, what is a AR?
'AR' stands for Augmented Reality
The word augmented means to change or manipulate
something and in this instance we're
talking about manipulating something visual
AR is the process of overlaying
the real world with a digital image
so you can experience something that you
wouldn't ordinarily be able to in real time
AR commonly uses the camera
that's built into your phone or your
tablet in order to be able to use it
Things you've probably used already are
Facebook filters or Pokemon Go
It goes without saying that AR is becoming
really accessible and very very popular
I mean, we've all got a phone in our pockets
Now playing around with an AR
piece of technology is a lot of fun but
if you're thinking of developing an AR
experience you might be asking yourself
"Why? Why would I want to do this?"
Well, first of all you can do things that
otherwise would be absolutely impossible
For example, you can bring inanimate
objects to life
Imagine being able to go to maybe something like a castle or
historical place and be able to look
back in time quite realistically to
maybe what things were like a hundred
years ago
or even more exciting
look to the future
Ultimately it is the real
world that anchors AR technology
So if that's AR, what's VR?
'VR' stands for Virtual Reality
Virtual means something that's not really there
so ie: computer-generated
The main difference between AR and VR is
AR is the process of putting a digital object
in your real world environment
VR is the process of putting you into an entirely virtual
situation, so everything around you has
been constructed digitally
You may have seen the game 'Beat Saber'; this is an extremely popular and great use of VR technology
With VR, there really are no bounds
You can create any environment that you want!
So, for example you can
transport yourself halfway across the
world or even to a completely made-up place
You could shrink yourself down to
investigate something at close up scale
so for example checking out blood
vessels inside of a body or you could
grow yourself huge and see something
from a completely different perspective
that would be impossible in normal life
and finally VR is really useful at for training
Imagine training to travel to space;
there's not a lot of options between
being sat in a training room and all of
a sudden you're in the ether
With something like VR you can practice a lot
of the technical skills that you'd be
required to use without actually going
to space!
Now VR technology is still
growing and developing and this means
that right now there are a few limitations
Some of those are things like 
bad locomotion, low fidelity graphics
and bulky headsets
but just like all good tech it's going to 
get better with time
The key thing for VR is
just having a great idea and then coming
to somebody like us
Zubr.co
to build your amazing idea for you
Now you hopefully
know the difference between AR and VR
it's time to get a little bit more complicated
You may have heard of a term 'Mixed Reality', 
or possibly 'Hybrid Reality'
As this sounds, this is the
merging of these two technologies
Currently exploring a mixed reality
experience is made possible by certain
technology for example the Hololens or
the Magic Leap
These headsets have
cameras on which enable you to interact
with the real world around you whilst
also putting you in
to a virtual reality experience
Imagine putting on a headset and you can see
your normal living room but you fancy
going somewhere else...
Then a portal just magically appears in front of you
(That's AR)
you step through the portal and
all of a sudden you are in a world of VR
This is a perfect example of 
Mixed Reality
The reason you might like to
develop something with mixed reality is
it is the most immersive experience you can have
The user literally transports themselves from real world
to the world that you have created
Ultimately the only reason you'd want to separate 
VR and AR
is really down to the limitations
of current hardware
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