In the process, we let residents experience it using “The Box”.
“The Box”, developed by Boksburg company My Panoramic, is a fold-out cardboard smartphone mount that, when combined with lenses, affords a virtual reality experience.
A smartphone with stereoscopic display software fits into this device and the lenses allow a person to perceive the images as one single three-dimensional image.
It, therefore, feels like reality.
Almost all the people with whom we interacted gave this amazing technology the thumbs up.
Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment.
The simplest form of virtual reality is a 3-D image that can be explored interactively at a personal computer, usually by manipulating keys or the mouse, so that the content of the image moves in some direction or zooms in or out.
More sophisticated efforts involve such approaches as wrap-around display screens, actual rooms augmented with wearable computers, and haptics devices that let you feel the display images.
Part of the virtual reality world is augmented reality, which is a live, direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input, such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.
