Virtual Reality Basic Learning Path - What is real? What is virtual? In which world am I wandering?

Have you ever dreamed of visiting the inside of a pyramid, singing on stage with the Beatles or hunting for treasure on a lost island, trying to escape pirates? This may sound impossible at first, but with a little help of technology, all this is now made feasible.  

Thanks to the evolution and miniaturization of hardware components and the development of image and video processing, artificial intelligence and other groundbreaking technologies, it is now possible to create virtual worlds and get plunged into them. By combining sensory information and computation and communication capabilities, technology can now immerse a user into an environment that is built from an enriched or augmented reality, or is completely built from an imaginary world, thus creating a virtual reality. Those are applied in very diverse domains, like work, education, gaming, socialization, medicine, manufacturing...

In this learning path, we are going to explore those different types of ‘realities’: virtual (VR), augmented (AR), mixed (MR) or extended (XR). We will cover the technical foundations that make the appearance of those environments possible, investigate the differences between their types, and their possible usages. We will also lightly touch upon the technical approach to their development.