By Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed
Let’s take a step here. First, most of us have not gotten our heads around augmented reality. We tend to conflate VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality). The biggest news in VR over the past few years has been the $2 billion purchase of the VR company Oculus by Facebook in 2014, and the release of the Oculus Rift this year. AR is different from VR in that the user is not fully immersed in the virtual world, but rather interact with a combination of holographic images (and sound) with the physical environment. Microsoft calls this “mixed reality” – and for an idea of what wearing a HoloLens is like you should check out this video on their HoloLens site.
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