VR is Virtual Reality.
Virtual means apparent, non-real, or non-real yet.
Virtual Adepts use VR Goggles, an fairly old technology that since few of last years goes through rapid growth.
Modern Way.
VR Goggles are devices that when put on head allow to see Virtual Worlds in three dimensions.
Head movements are detected & a vision field changes, moves.
There are costly VR Goggles as Oculus Rift for example, but there are also cheaper solutions that hold certain advantages as well.
'Cardboard VR' is a term for using either a cardboard box or a well made holder for the Smartphone, a modern computer in itself.
Screen is split in two parts, one for each eye. Smartphone communicates wirelessly with computer who serves data to a Smartphone that visualizes that data, for each eye. Smartphone serves gyroscope signals to a Computer as neccessary. This can be a quite elegant, cheap, modern & efficient solution for VR Visualization.
Later in this article i'll post details of how it works in practice, when i can ... as well as at least a few of the less obvious benefits of using VR Goggles on a Virtual Adept's Magickal Way.
... for now i'll only add a picture of a Virtual Adept Mage from Mage: The Ascension Storytelling Game about the Modern Magick.
A Virtual Adept.
My VR Goggles Set.
VR Box.
... my VR Box arrived (on 19.08.2016), still waiting for a Smartphone with Android OS, Gyroscope, WiFi & 3G Internet hardware however.
Once it arrives, VR Goggles set will be complete.
i'll use Trinus VR software for Android OS & PC, perhaps more as well. It's commercial, has price ... but has a free version as well. Works with iPhone as well, even if not everything is supported.
update (02/09/2016): a smartphone arrived already, i'll write more as i test it properly with VR & when i can; i need more than one day for that, perhaps much more as well.
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