Microsoft HoloLens Developer???s Guide

Virtual reality

As you can see, virtual reality replaces the real world with a digital one but does so in such a way the user actually believes, on a more subconscious level, that what she experiences is the real thing. By this, I mean that, although the user is aware it is all fake, on a lower level she will accept the virtual world as the real world. You can see this by observing someone who rides a virtual rollercoaster in a VR environment: if she does not sit down she will probably fall down because she will compensate for the fake movements of the car. On another level, we see a similar behavior: people who see scary things in a VR world will actually be frightened, more so than they would if watching the scene on a television or in ...