There is a rapid growth in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality technologies and can become mainstream in the next few years. Augmented reality (AR) is used to add digital elements to a live view mainly either using the camera on a smartphone. Examples of AR are Snapchat lenses and the game Pokémon Go.
Virtual reality (VR) is used to create a complete immersion experience that creates a simulated environment and shuts out the physical world. There are many Virtual reality (VR) devices such as HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, that shuts the physical world to users and transport into imagined environments.
In a Mixed Reality (MR) experience, that combines elements of both augmented reality (AR) and Virtual reality (VR), real-world and digital objects interact. Mixed reality technology is in its starting stage. Recently, Mixed Reality is used in Microsoft’s HoloLens, one of the most notable early mixed reality.
Also, watch this video to understand the differences between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality:
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