VIRTUAL REALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does virtual reality mean? 

• VIRTUAL REALITY (noun)
  The noun VIRTUAL REALITY has 1 sense:

1. a hypothetical three-dimensional visual world created by a computer; user wears special goggles and fiber optic gloves etc., and can enter and move about in this world and interact with objects as if inside it

  Familiarity information: VIRTUAL REALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIRTUAL REALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hypothetical three-dimensional visual world created by a computer; user wears special goggles and fiber optic gloves etc., and can enter and move about in this world and interact with objects as if inside it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("virtual reality" is a kind of...):

computer game; video game (a game played against a computer)

 Context examples 

Virtual reality employs medical images as a foundation to create innovative methods of reviewing and analyzing the data they produce.

(Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, NCI Thesaurus)

For future therapies that preserve optic nerve axons, Huberman envisions the development of filters for virtual reality video games, television programs, or eyeglasses designed to deliver regeneration-inducing visual stimulation.

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)

Virtual reality in Medical Imaging is the technique of combining 3D DICOM image data sets produced by medical imaging equipment with extremely high-powered computer capabilities.

(Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, NCI Thesaurus)