Virtual reality and augmented reality

Virtual Reality-:                                                                             

First VR system was introduced in 1990s and they were of room like sized projection system, large head mounted display with touch-sensitive gloves. At that time there price was near about Rs. 70 lakhs and only used by armed forces to give realistic training to new soldiers n costly weapons missile launcher and fighter aircrafts. But due to their high prices they are out of reach to the normal people. In India, the national informatics center of the department of electronics setups one of the VR lab in Delhi-the virtual lab Of NIC (VELNIC). It gives easy solution for training purpose to govt. departments.

If we move towards 2014, the VR were lashed with technologies like 3-D visualization and augmented reality. Virtual reality also known as computer enhanced reality. It is an artificial environment created by computer software that allows user to interact with it by using senses like sight, touch, sound, and sometimes smell too. These all creates the illusion that gives the feeling of the real environment.

Swadesi VR headset-

The Indian mobile phone company Karbonn has launched two phones in 2016, with inbuilt VR software with free headset and also the two other Indian companies launched VR headsets.

Zebronics has launched the Zeb VR @ Rs. 1600 and it work with normal smartphone having screen size 6-inches.zebronic is compatible the problem with Google cardboard apps which gives large library of free 3-D and VR friendly apps.

Indian challengers-

Three UG college dropouts Shubham Mishra, Vrushali Prasade, and Harikrishna Valiyath of BITS, Pilani Goa created VR headset called Tesseract ,through which users is allowed 360 degree military-grade head tracking and allows to watch any game or movie in 3-D.the current price of Tesseract is 20,000.

 Augmented reality-:

Augmented reality adds additional digital information into the users’ real world rather than creating new and artificial world.

If we talk about the Google glass it is an head mounted display, shaped like normal eye glasses by which users access information in the internet, give All the information displayed in corner of the glass. Google glass is available globally from mid-2013 with very high prices- 1 lakh. It is especially used in medical profession due to their high prices Google glass never got wide public acceptance.

Real world approach to learning-:

If we talk about PM Narendra Modi’s vision of digital India. As we all know Blippar is an augmented-reality and visual discovery platform. Bllipar and Avanti learning center come together to makes the periodic table Blippable. With the use of augmented reality technology, Blippar creates an easy way of understanding, learning, and interacting with the periodic table due to fun and activities like quiz, games, and interesting in an animated format.