Extended reality

IT SOUNDS as though it’s been lifted out of a science-fiction novel. Waking up in the morning, you pour yourself a cup of coffee and put on a thick pair of glasses. Maybe you also slip on a pair of padded gloves or don a pair of earphones. In an instant, you’re transported to your office. There are documents in front of you waiting to be sorted and pixelated people outside your door waiting to be seen. You’re exactly where you were, yet you’re also in a completely new place so real that all of your senses are convinced by it.

This is a future everyday routine.

Welcome to extended reality.

Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) are all terms that have been thrown around in cyber circles since before computers made their way out of laboratories and into homes and offices. The process of supplementing the real world with digital