AR vs VR

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have exciting potential in the future of gaming, marketing, e-commerce, education, and many other fields. Both technologies are known for their enriched experience that brings together a virtual world and the real one with enhanced, 3-D visuals. Although it can be easy to mix up the two, there are some significant differences.

Let's talk about AR - Almost any person with a smartphone can get access to augmented reality, making it more efficient than VR as a branding and gaming tool. AR morphs the mundane, physical world into a colorful, visual one by projecting virtual pictures and characters through a phone's camera or video viewer. Augmented reality is merely adding to the user's real-life experience.

Let's talk about VR - Almost any person with a smartphone can get access to augmented reality, making it more efficient than VR as a branding and gaming tool. AR morphs the mundane, physical world into a colorful, visual one by projecting virtual pictures and characters through a phone's camera or video viewer. Augmented reality is merely adding to the user's real-life experience.

The distinctions between VR and AR come down to the devices they require and the experience itself:

• AR uses a real-world setting while VR is completely virtual
• AR users can control their presence in the real world; VR users are controlled by the system
• VR requires a headset device, but AR can be accessed with a smartphone
• AR enhances both the virtual and real world while VR only enhances a fictional reality
• AR augments the real-world scene whereas VR creates completely immersive virtual environments.
• AR is 25% virtual and 75% real while VR is 75% virtual and 25% real.
• In AR no headset is needed on the other hand in VR, you need a headset device.
• With AR, end-users are still in touch with the real world while interacting with virtual objects nearer to them, but by using VR technology, the VR user is isolated from the real world and immerses himself in a completely fictional world.