{"id":30349,"date":"2025-02-24T06:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30349"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:33:09","slug":"extended-reality-xr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/extended-reality-xr\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Reality (XR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Extended Reality Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The XR Creator Hackathon is being organised by Wavelaps in association with the WAVES 2025 initiative of the Ministry Information and Broadcasting.<\/p>\n<h2>About Extended Reality<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Extended reality (XR) represents a <strong>fusion of immersive technologies<\/strong> that blend the physical and virtual worlds, <strong>encompassing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR),<\/strong> and <strong>mixed reality (MR) <\/strong>technologies.<\/li>\n<li>All immersive technologies extend the reality we experience by either blending the virtual and \u201creal\u201d worlds or by creating a fully immersive experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Augmented Reality\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In AR, <strong>virtual information and objects<\/strong> are <strong>overlaid on the real world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This experience <strong>enhances the real world with digital details<\/strong> such as images, text, and animation.<\/li>\n<li>You can access the experience <strong>through AR glasses or via screens<\/strong>, tablets, and smartphones.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This means <strong>users are not isolated from the real world <\/strong>and can still interact and see what\u2019s going on in front of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Virtual Reality<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In contrast to AR, in a VR experience, <strong>users are fully immersed in<\/strong> a <strong>simulated digital environment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Individuals must put on a <strong>VR headset or head-mounted display<\/strong> to get a 360 -degree view of an <strong>artificial world <\/strong>that fools their brain into believing they are, e.g., walking on the moon, swimming under the ocean or stepping into whatever new world the VR developers created.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mixed Reality<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In mixed reality,<strong> digital and real-world objects co-exist<\/strong> and can <strong>interact with one another in real-time.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is the latest immersive technology and is sometimes referred to as <strong>hybrid reality.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It requires an MR headset and a lot more processing power than VR or AR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the World Audio Visual &amp; Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>initiative of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,<\/strong> Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>WAVES 2025 is designed as a pivotal <strong>platform for<\/strong> ideas, collaboration, and innovation within the <strong>media and entertainment (M&amp;E) industry.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will serve as a forum for India to position itself as a global leader in content creation, technology integration, and creative industry growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Extended Reality FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What are the three types of extended reality?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The three types of Extended Reality (XR) are Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What are the key features of extended reality?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. With XR, users can experience simulated environments, interact with digital objects, and gain new perspectives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is metaverse?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It refers to a virtual or digital universe where people can interact with each other and digital objects in a shared online space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/waves-2025-xr-creator-hackathon-opens-up-opportunities-for-myriad-talents\/article69255276.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extended Reality (XR) represents a fusion of immersive technologies that blend the physical and virtual worlds, encompassing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}