The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to VR (Virtual Reality)

Recently updated on October 22nd, 2025 at 02:56 pm

Hi guys, here in “All Virtual Reality“, we aims to provide you with some useful guide to VR or Virtual Reality. We try our best so that the beginners to VR also can appreciate the guide that we provided. Well, let’s start…

What is VR or Virtual Reality?

VR stands for “Virtual Reality“. It refers to technology or platform that can generate or simulate the environment. When we talk about VR, the emphasized is on the capability to give the users an immersive feel of a virtual world like they are really there.

Most of the VR platforms highly emphasized on the visual aspect of it to ensure the image is as sharp and realistic as possible. And also to ensure that you can turn and look around your surrounding in 360-degree as if you are in that world.

However, the modern VR platforms are also strengthening the other aspects as well such as sounds and haptics or touch feeling. With the haptics, you will be able to interact with the virtual objects or elements in the virtual world in real time.

Perhaps, in the near future, the other sense elements will be supported in VR as well such as the smell and taste.

If you are really new to virtual reality and would like to know more about, then this article provides you with the brief introduction to it. To help you further with the popular terminology used in VR, we also comes with the list of glossary that you can refer immediately.

Why Ultimate Guide to VR?

There are plenty of reasons why we love VR. One of it is the urge to feel like to be really there in the games that we played. For us, it is not enough to just played in front of the 2D monitor. We want to have the sensation to be blended in inside the virtual environment where we can move around in 360 degrees like in the actual world.

Some other reasons might be the great influence from the movies related with virtual reality. We want to looks so damn cool like the Neo character from “The Matrix” film. With this level of passion in VR, it drives us to produce this ultimate guide to assist you and the beginners on virtual reality.

How Do We Use VR?

In the early days, we can use the red and cyan/blue glasses to see the Anaglyph 3D. The Anaglyph is the stereoscopic 3D effect that able to produce the sense of depth in the images that we look at. It started trending somewhere in 1953. This is the most straight forward and easiest way to enjoy VR since it is as easy as using a spectacle and reading a book.

Nowadays, there are few brands that produce some sort of head gear or HMD (Head-Mounted Display) for us to wear so we can see the virtual world around us. Normally, we use the term “VR Headset” for that gear.

There are also some platforms that provide us with the hand controllers as well that will act like a mouse for us to point and interact with the virtual objects.

However, there are also other type of VR platforms where we do not need to use any VR headset or special glasses. Usually we called it as “Dome” where it is the VR without goggles. The solution is built by having a 360-degree wrap-around projection surrounding yourself.

Is There Any Difference Between VR and AR?

Sometimes, people are also confused between VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality). There are slight differences between each of them. So that’s why we have come up with an article that can help explain the difference between those three big terms.

Furthermore, they are also term “Metaverse” being introduced lately into the industry. Metaverse is a much broader subject and we hope our article on it can help give clarity on this.

History of VR

Virtual reality has come a long way since 1950s. The earliest published use of the term “Virtual Reality” is in year 1958 where the term is used inside a book titled “The Theater and its Double“. It is the English translation of “Le Théâtre et son double“, the collection of essays from Antonin Artaud, the French avant-garde playwright.

There is an article on history and timeline of significant events in VR world if you would like to know more about it. We try our best to keep the history updated so we all can benefit from it. We think by knowing how far VR has evolved with time, we will appreciate it a lot more.

Applications of VR in Real-Life

Normally, people will relate VR with games, but there are a lot more of real world use cases where we can apply VR to it such as military, medical and manufacturing. We will talk more details about it in the following sections.

Along the way, we found out that there are many good applications of VR in the real life as well. For example is like the ability to perform virtual tours or trip especially during this pandemic time.

• List of Benefits and Advantages of Virtual Tour, Trip or Travel

There are also many other examples of real life applications of VR such as in medical, police, robotic, drones, architecture and many more. As much as possible, we would like to cover it and share it with you.

VR in Entertainment & Sports

At this moment, it seems that the most popular usage of VR is in the gaming. You can also enjoy the live streaming of the sports events like you are really there in the stadium. It is also can be used to experience the extreme sports from the comfort of your home as well.

We also try to keep the list of VR arcades and amusement parks so you can refer to it in case you plan to visit them in the future. One good thing is that, these sector provides major exposure to introduce virtual reality technology to the world.

VR in Training & Simulation

With VR, we can do a lot of training and simulation in virtual environment. For example to simulate the working environment inside International Space Station and also for the flight simulation.

There are many major benefits to be able to do the training and simulation virtually such as low risk of getting injury and we can do it many times without having to worry so much on the cost. As compared to do it physically or in real environment, there will be lot of money involved if we need to do it repeatedly.

And in critical sector like medical or hospital, the doctors and nurses can do many times of surgery simulation and practices until they are confident without risking the patient life.

Meaning to say, VR is very beneficial to the industries in terms of cost reduction and lowering the risks.

VR in Education

One of the areas that can benefit a lot from VR is education. Nowadays, people talk about experiential learning where the students can learn by doing it. VR provide a great tools to achieve this objective and at the same time minimizing the risk such as doing the Chemistry experiment. Once in a while, we will share with you latest news of VR in education as well.

News & Events

From time to time, we also shared with you some of the latest news and development in the VR industry. There are also many exciting events related with VR, AR and MR around the world that you might want to visit or be there physically or virtually so you’ll be up-to-date. We also keep the past VR events or exhibitions for your future references.

• VR News Compilation List

Top of the List

Once in a while we also comes up with our own version of the top of the list such as the Top Best Adventure Games, Best VR Apps for Seniors, Top Live Streaming and others. We try to ensure that we can provide the best guide and recommendation to you on the suitable VR apps.

Popular VR Headsets & Devices

We also have some articles focusing on the popular VR headsets at this moment such as the high end HoloLens, Oculus Quest 2, Varjo XR-3, Pimax Crystal and also the low cost headset such as Google Cardboard.

Sometimes, we also covered the story related with other VR peripherals such as motion tracking and capture devices.

VR Companies

VR companies and studios are still quite rare because it involves a lot of investment to build it. So we think that it is worthwhile to have some directory on the most prominent companies and organization in VR for our reference.

It is quite challenging to keep up to date with the changes of the organization due to merger & acquisition, closure, sold etc. Anyway, we try our best to update the list accordingly.

Jobs, Careers & Money Making In VR

So, with all the hoo-ha, is there any real money making machine in VR? Although it is still considered as a very niche industry, virtual reality also can provide you a platform to build up your careers and create job opportunity for those with the relevant skillset.

If you have the courage and creative enough, there are many other possible ways for you to make money in VR. One of the example is by creating content, games and apps for it.

Issues and Concerns in VR

Apart from the fun stuffs in VR, we also acknowledge that there are still many open issues that yet to be resolved. For example are the challenges in the mobile virtual reality and the most popular is the motion sickness in VR.

Besides that, there are also concerns on the effect of virtual reality to our eyesight. At this moment, we do not see yet any serious study being done on the impact of VR to our eyes. Perhaps, one day we are able to see this to ensure continuous VR development is safe for all.

Another popular concerns from the parent is whether VR is safe for kids or children. From Meta, the Quest VR headset is only for those with ages 13 and above. And from Sony, the children under age 12 should not use PSVR2.

Most of the companies do not explain the details why they “prohibit” the use of it for kids. But we think this might be because the kids eyeballs or eyesight is still developed and not mature yet. So, it is wise for them to wait a bit until they can safely use VR.

We try our best to also come up with the recommendation on how to overcome the issues for the benefit of all.

Study, Courses, Tutorials

Are you still excited with VR? If you are very serious in getting your feet inside the VR industry, there are many ways you can learn to master it. One of it is by studying and getting a certification or degree on it. Nowadays, there are many learning institutions such as university, college and school which offer courses or training on virtual reality subject.

Besides, we also provides some tutorials and guide that might be able to help you during your VR journey. This might be very useful especially to the beginners.

Hope one day we can also able to offer the VR courses to you 😉

Finally…

Lastly, we got some of our own made cartoons related with VR joke. Hope some of it can make you smile 🙂 As a quick reference, we also have come up with a “VR Directory” that can help you too during your VR journey. We hope that this ultimate guide to VR can help you to more enjoy and appreciate the virtual reality world and universe.

The image above is by kalhh from Pixabay

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