USS Arizona: Reality Capture Data Converted to a Virtual Reality Experience

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In addition to creating 3D-printed artifacts for the remaining survivors, the team created a virtual reality experience.

Augmented reality is an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device such as a camera on a smartphone. When the Yelp application overlays restaurant names on top of a smartphone’s street view, that’s augmented reality. On the other hand, virtual reality is an artificial world consisting of images and sounds created by a computer that is affected by the actions of a person experiencing it. Most first-person video games are examples of virtual reality. So unlike augmented reality, in virtual reality, everything is virtual instead of real.

Using the same data…

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