Virtual Reality or VR for short, headsets is currently the best way to enter the Metaverse in a highly immersive way. You leave the real world outside the glasses and dive deep in with covering your eyes having speakers relatively close to ears for best spatial awareness.
When you enter the virtual reality experience it can be done in different ways and which comes with different degrees of immersion and of course, cost. To get a VR headset is a good first step in the journey, and that does a great deal for the experience already, but below are more categories of hardware to add to the experience.
VR Headesets is the most important category of hardware to immerse yourself deeper in the Metaverse, it takes over your vision, usually has speakers, and includes controllers to navigate the virtual world.
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VR Bodysuits adds an extra layer on top of the visual and auditory experience theat the VR headsets bring. When you are immersed in the virtual world you will feel what is going on, not only observe it.
VR Treadmills can really enhance the virtual world experience if the Metaverse is focused on moving around and exploring, you add a degree of precision and immersion that is simply not possible with buttons or a joystick.
AR hardware is less spoken about when it comes to Metaverse and entering the virtual experience. It is of course natural as there with Augmented Reality you don’t leave the real world behind you. However using AR hardware you can enhance the regular reality to make it more than what it is, showing information about what you are looking at or feeding other you with relevant information.
There are a number of AR headsets on the market already that bring a compelling experience, none of them have a big focus on working with the virtual world or metaverse overlayed of the real world.
Mixed Reality hardware is a relatively small category where you have the real world and the virtual world meet. The objects that are introduced in MR can react and interact to the real world. It is said the Mixed Reality is somewhere in between AR and VR, maybe is the best of both worlds?