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Virtual Reality in Manufacturing

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Virtual engineering

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The virtual reality systems are human-centric in nature, both from the design and operation perspective. In order for the advanced human-computer interfaces provided in virtual environments to be utilized, four basic attributes need to be well balanced. These are immersion, presence, navigation and interaction. The four attributes describe the ability of the human user to feel the virtual world as being real, to sense a self-representation of the human body, to move within the environment and interact naturally with the existing virtual objects (Chryssolouris 2006).

Augmented Reality (AR) is an enhanced version of reality, created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (as a smartphone camera); also: the technology used to create augmented reality (Merriam-Webster 2015).

Theory and Application

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  1. Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Sotiris Makris, Loukas Rentzos, George Pintzos & George Chryssolouris

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Correspondence to George Chryssolouris .

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  1. Forschungsinstitut für Rationalisierung (FIR) e. V, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Günther Schuh

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Makris, S., Rentzos, L., Pintzos, G., Chryssolouris, G. (2018). Virtual Reality in Manufacturing. In: CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_16827-1

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