
Forms and methods įurther information: Immersion (virtual reality) and Reality–virtuality continuum Widespread adaption of the term "virtual reality" in the popular media is attributed to Jaron Lanier, who in the late 1980s designed some of the first business-grade virtual reality hardware under his firm VPL Research, and the 1992 film Lawnmower Man, which features use of virtual reality systems. The term "virtual reality" was first used in a science fiction context in The Judas Mandala, a 1982 novel by Damien Broderick. The term " artificial reality", coined by Myron Krueger, has been in use since the 1970s. The English translation of this book, published in 1958 as The Theater and its Double, is the earliest published use of the term "virtual reality". In 1938, French avant-garde playwright Antonin Artaud described the illusory nature of characters and objects in the theatre as "la réalité virtuelle" in a collection of essays, Le Théâtre et son double. The term "virtual" has been used in the computer sense of "not physically existing but made to appear by software" since 1959. " Virtual" has had the meaning of "being something in essence or effect, though not actually or in fact" since the mid-1400s.



Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), education (such as medical or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings). Virtual reality ( VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Researchers with the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, equipped with a VR headset and motion controllers, demonstrating how astronauts might use virtual reality in the future to train to extinguish a fire inside a lunar habitat
