For today a new post with something that has caught my attention, today I will focus a little on the virtual reality (VR) environment. I think we have all seen in a commercial the famous screen-lenses that allow the user to experience the sensation of being in a different environment, experiencing sounds and images generated in a virtual way, these work connected to a PC, a game console and even in some cases connected to a Smartphone.

The objective of this “virtual reality” experience is to provide real sensations for entertainment purposes, however another of its great uses is to allow physical interaction with virtual environments before These exist, for example, engineering and construction projects before being built, and one of the best known cases is flight simulators that allow pilots to practice the required flight hours and learn about the operation of some aircraft through virtual interaction. .

Now, in the case of augmented reality (AR), seen as a variation of virtual reality, we work with an overlap of “unreal” elements on an environment real (existing), to offer the same experiences of virtual reality in terms of the perception of a simulated environment, remember Pokemon Go?

But like all technological advances, virtual reality and augmented reality have different purposes and utilities, starting with the fact that virtual reality depends on an interaction device (the famous glasses ) that the user must use in order to "live" the alternate reality. On the other hand, augmented reality is more focused on the use of superimposed digital images based on real images and the interaction can be carried out through a PC, Tablet or Smartphone, for example.

It is an undeniable "reality" that these two means of perception of environments are a great help in areas such as engineering, architecture and construction to improve design proposals; medicine to improve therapies and treatments, among other cases more useful than the simple reason for entertainment. In fact, I think that for the area of virtual education that is currently in vogue, these tools could significantly support “the knowledge” that you want to transmit to students.

Finally, I believe that realities perception environments will constitute a new modality of tests and trials, identifying and contrasting a large number of hypotheses before they are implemented in life real and thus reduce the margin of errors. The tactile perception, the sensations in the best style of "3D movies", the recognition and interaction of an environment "that does not exist" or before it is created, will allow solid progress on new projects with the great possibility of identifying problems, failures and deviations before they occur in "palpable reality."