How much do you know about the application of virtual reality technology in smart home?

Understanding Virtual Reality Technology

Virtual reality (VR, also translated as spiritual environment, fantasy) is a new way for people to visualize and interact with complex data through computers. It is also called spiritual environment technology or artificial environment. The study of this technology began in the 1960s, but until the early 1990s, virtual reality technology began to be a relatively complete system and received great attention. It can be said that it is a combination of computer graphics, multimedia, simulation, artificial intelligence, computer network technology, sensor technology and many other products. Using a computer model to simulate the creation of a virtual world in a three-dimensional space, users are provided with simulations of the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Users are able to observe things in the three-dimensional space in a timely and unrestricted manner. Compared with the traditional man- Machine interface and popular window operations, virtual reality has made a qualitative leap in technological thinking.

There are three issues that need to be addressed to generate a virtual reality world. The first is how to make the observer have the same visual, tactile, and auditory effects as the actual environment. The second is how to create a sense of reality that is consistent with the observer's actions (that is, interactivity). The last is how Create a sense of reality over time (ie, real-time).

Application of Virtual Reality Technology in Smart Home

Virtual reality technology had received extensive attention in the 1990s, but later due to cost and price reasons, and for its popularity, its application was limited to only a few special areas. With the development of technology, especially the in-depth development of smart hardware, wearable devices, and smart home industries, the application of virtual reality technology is also expanding.

The first application of virtual reality in the home is to carry out a variety of interior decoration, the second application is to expand the home space, which will maximize the freedom of space to the human bondage, the next application will be more intelligent. In fact, there are virtual reality devices such as virtual screens in home entertainment in smart homes. With the further evolution of virtual technologies and artificial intelligence, smart homes will become more intelligent.

We can smell the flavor of future applications from the "Kitchen World" released by Matsushita in Japan. As long as the user wears a special helmet and silver gloves, he can experience the “kitchen world”. Open the door, you will see all the kitchen facilities, unscrew the tap, the water flow out, take out the vegetable cleaning; open the microwave oven and start making dinner. When you take down the helmet, some will disappear. In the future, smart homes that incorporate virtual reality technology will have a qualitative leap forward.

Jeremy Bailenson, founder of Stanford University’s Virtual Interaction Lab, said at the BIG Talk forum on Baidu’s “The Dawn of the Virtual Revolution” that virtual reality technology will become the next technology that will affect the world. In particular, after the price of a virtual reality device reaches the price that consumers can afford, its application will be popularized so that every family can experience virtual reality technology.