Augmented Reality: A/R
A/R uses existing scenery (a hotel lobby, a street or any environment), and through the video/camera lens, adds animations or slightly changes the scenery to add effects to the current reality, "augmenting" it. This was most characteristic of the game Pokemon Go.
Virtual Reality : V/R
V/R exists when an entire "world" is created inside of a program and visible through a pair of special glasses (or nowadays a smartphone with an attachement). This world more often than not appears to be 3D. Future developments of V/R will try to go beyond just the senses of sight and sound, but also include touch, smell, and even taste.
The difference between the two:
A/R uses the existing world and scenery as a backdrop which you just see through your screen, whereas V/R recreates an entirely different world in which you are completely immersed. From an ethical point of view, V/R is scarier as you find yourself completely cut off from the real world, A/R just enhances it.
Google cardboard:
Google cardboard is a DIY, inexpensive cardboard set of V/R glasses that when you insert your smartphone, and when using a special program, you can easily and quickly experience virtual reality. It makes low quality virtual reality accessible to all.
Our V/A/R video with Noémie:
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