Mixed reality

Clip from a mixed reality Job Simulator game

Mixed reality (MR) is a term used to describe the merging of a real-world environment and a computer-generated one. Physical and virtual objects may co-exist in mixed reality environments and interact in real time.

Mixed reality that incorporates haptics has sometimes been referred to as Visuo-haptic mixed reality.^[1]^[2]

In a physics context, the term "interreality system" refers to a virtual reality system coupled with its real-world counterpart.^[3] A 2007 paper describes an interreality system comprising a real physical pendulum coupled to a pendulum that only exists in virtual reality.^[4] This system has two stable states of motion: a "dual reality" state in which the motion of the two pendula are uncorrelated, and a "mixed reality" state in which the pendula exhibit stable phase-locked motion, which is highly correlated. The use of the terms "mixed reality" and "interreality" is clearly defined in the context of physics and may be slightly different in other fields, however, it is generally seen as, "bridging the physical and virtual world".^[5]

^ Cosco, Francesco; Garre, Carlos; Bruno, Fabio; Muzzupappa, Maurizio; Otaduy, Miguel A. (January 2013). "Visuo-Haptic Mixed Reality with Unobstructed Tool-Hand Integration". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 19 (1): 159–172. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2012.107. ISSN 1941-0506. PMID 22508901. S2CID 2894269.
^ Aygün, Mehmet Murat; Öğüt, Yusuf Çağrı; Baysal, Hulusi; Taşcıoğlu, Yiğit (January 2020). "Visuo-Haptic Mixed Reality Simulation Using Unbound Handheld Tools". Applied Sciences. 10 (15): 5344. doi:10.3390/app10155344. ISSN 2076-3417.
^ J. van Kokswijk, Hum@n, Telecoms & Internet as Interface to Interreality Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Bergboek, The Netherlands, 2003).
^ V. Gintautas, and A. W. Hubler, Experimental evidence for mixed reality states in an interreality system Phys. Rev. E 75, 057201 (2007).
^ Repetto, C. and Riva, G., 2020. From Virtual Reality To Interreality In The Treatment Of Anxiety Disorders. [online] Jneuropsychiatry.org. Available at: https://www.jneuropsychiatry.org/peer-review/from-virtual-reality-to-interreality-in-the-treatment-of-anxiety-disorders-neuropsychiatry.pdf [Accessed 30 October 2020].

[1] Cosco, Francesco; Garre, Carlos; Bruno, Fabio; Muzzupappa, Maurizio; Otaduy, Miguel A. (January 2013). "Visuo-Haptic Mixed Reality with Unobstructed Tool-Hand Integration". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 19 (1): 159–172. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2012.107. ISSN 1941-0506. PMID 22508901. S2CID 2894269.

[2] Aygün, Mehmet Murat; Öğüt, Yusuf Çağrı; Baysal, Hulusi; Taşcıoğlu, Yiğit (January 2020). "Visuo-Haptic Mixed Reality Simulation Using Unbound Handheld Tools". Applied Sciences. 10 (15): 5344. doi:10.3390/app10155344. ISSN 2076-3417.

[3] J. van Kokswijk, Hum@n, Telecoms & Internet as Interface to Interreality Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Bergboek, The Netherlands, 2003).

[4] V. Gintautas, and A. W. Hubler, Experimental evidence for mixed reality states in an interreality system Phys. Rev. E 75, 057201 (2007).

[5] Repetto, C. and Riva, G., 2020. From Virtual Reality To Interreality In The Treatment Of Anxiety Disorders. [online] Jneuropsychiatry.org. Available at: https://www.jneuropsychiatry.org/peer-review/from-virtual-reality-to-interreality-in-the-treatment-of-anxiety-disorders-neuropsychiatry.pdf [Accessed 30 October 2020].

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