Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: How They Relate to Today's Industry

Virtual and Augmented Reality (+Videos)

Revolutionising complex product development and making the factory of the future a reality for today’s manufacturers

VR & AR: What it all means for Industry

Advice Manufacturing | August 18, 2015

Virtual and Augmented reality technologies are starting to revolutionise complex product development and production processes. It’s an exciting area impacting many high-tech industry sectors at the moment, but increasingly trickling down the supply chain to SMEs too.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/06/augmented-and-virtual-reality-to-hit-150-billion-by-2020/#.rlcoku:QBE9

Virtual and Augmented Reality – What are they exactly?
In the context of manufacturing and product design Virtual Reality (VR) digitally simulates a product or environment, often with the user being able to interact and immerse themselves within it. With Augmented Reality (AR) the digital product is projected on to the real world background, rather than a digitally simulated one like VR.

<more at http://www.advice-manufacturing.com/Virtual-and-Augmented-Reality.html>; related links: http://www.advice-manufacturing.com/support-files/advice_manufacturing_free_report_v0.2.pdf (How to Help Your Small Manufacturing Business Thrive. Mark Lynch) and http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/06/augmented-and-virtual-reality-to-hit-150-billion-by-2020/#.rlcoku:QBE9 (Augmented And Virtual Reality To Hit $150 Billion, Disrupting Mobile By 2020. April 6, 2015)