Virtual reality: The gateway to the future

https://www.itp.net/emergent-tech/97949-virtual-reality-the-gateway-to-the-future

Apart from offering a virtually interactive environment, VR also offers a myriad of variations in how and to what extent an environment is explorable.

VR technology can offer a fully immersive, non-immersive, and web-based VR experience. A great example of a non-immersive VR experience is a flight simulator which allows the user to experience an alternate reality with just a joystick controller and a PC. Non-immersive technologies are commonly used in architecture, industrial designing, and archeology through 3D designs, allowing users to create a replica of the real-life environment.

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more on VR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality