VR replaces your surroundings with a digital world through a headset. AR overlays digital information onto what you see in the real world, usually through your phone camera or anchored to physical surfaces like walls and tables.
Typically, virtual reality refers to experiences and devices that fully immerse an individual. So their environment is completely transformed, typically through some digital means, computer vision recreation of another world or another environment. It can also be— a lot of folks are familiar with like 360-degree video experiences where A camera has taken 360-degree, perhaps even 3D type of environment, and then somebody's transported to that in a VR headset. Yes. So that's kind of the VR experience. And then augmented reality really refers to the augmentation of your immediate actual environment, right? Whether that's overlaying digital information on top of your field of view of that environment, which can be through a camera. Often, you know, even on a mobile device, you can hold the camera up or the device up and through the camera and the screen, it'll overlay digital elements on top of that real-world environment that you're in, or even like spatially anchored content where it's actually placing things on the tables or on the walls or within your physical environment and somehow augmenting or transforming that physical area that you're in.
