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4
Building a
Practical VR
System
A first-time user of any VR system may be surprised by how much more
satisfying and engaging the sensation of reality can be when more than one
of their senses is involved. The experience will also differ depending on the
degree of engagement with that sense. Initially, VR systems typically look
at stimulating the visual senses of the user. The most basic VR system is
actually a desktop computer monitor (which may or may not have stereo-
scopic capability). Here, the user of the virtual environment may only view
the environment rather than feel immersed within it. If we need to deliver
an immersive experience to the user then the hardware required to deliver the
visualization would be significantly different than ...