Immersive VR

 Immersive Virtual Reality

Immersive virtual reality  ( immersive VR ) is the presentation of an artificial environment that replaces users' real-world surroundings convincingly enough that they are able to suspend disbelief and fully engage with the created environment. Immersiveness is one of the important for VR applications like VR games, training and rehearsal simulations like situational simulations, and entertainment environments such as motion simulators.

Immersion into VR is a perception of being physically present a non-physical world. The perception is created by surrounding the user of the VR system in images, sound or other stimuli that provide an engrossing total environment.

This is a technology that aims to completely immerse the user inside the computer generated world, giving the impression to the user that they have 'stepped inside' the synthetic world. The earliest attempts at developing immersive technology date back to the 1800's. Without these early attempts, the world of immersive technology would never have reached its advanced technological state we have today.

One of the first devices that was designed to look like and function as a virtual reality headset was called a stereoscope. It was invented in the 1930's during the early days of photography and it used a slightly different image in each eye to create a kind of 3D effect. Although as photography continued to develop in the late 1800's, stereoscopes became more and more obsolete. Later, immersive technology became more available because of cinematic experience.

A full immersive technology experience happens when all elements of sight, sound, and touch come together. A true immersive experience needs to be done with either virtual reality or augmented reality. Interactivity and connectivity is the entire focus of immersive technology. It is not placing someone in an entirely different environment, it is when they are virtually presented with a new environment and are given the opportunity to learn how to optimally live and interact with it.

Finally, this immersive technology has grown immensely in the past few decades and is continuing to progress. VR has even been described as the learning aid of the 21st Century. The most considered method would be to introduce the sensations that made up the virtual reality in the nervous system directly. Once the senses reach a sufficient belief that digital environment is real, the user must then be able to interact with the environment in a natural, intuitive manner. Various immersive technologies such as gestural controls, motion tracking and computer vision respond to the user's action and movements.