Summary
Museums use these glasses to show ancient treasures to people far away 🏛️
City planners make pretend towns on computers to test new roads before building 🛣️
Key Points
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Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality let us see and touch digital things.
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Schools use them to make hard subjects easier to understand.
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Museums share collections online with these technologies.
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Planners use digital twins, which are computer copies of real places, to try ideas first.
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India's immersive technology market is growing very fast.
New Words to Learn
18 wordsimmersive
makes you feel like you are really inside something
virtual reality
a computer world that you can look around in as if you were there
augmented reality
adding digital pictures or information to what you see in real life
mixed reality
digital things that can interact with real objects around you
digital twin
a computer copy of a real building, city or object
haptic
technology that lets you feel vibrations or pressure from digital objects
infrastructure
the basic things like roads and buildings that a city needs
startup
a new small company trying to make something new
policy
rules made by a government to guide an area like technology
government scheme
a plan run by the government to help people or businesses
animation
making pictures move like a cartoon
visual effects
special digital pictures added to movies or games
gaming
playing video games
comics
drawn stories with pictures and words
extended reality
the group name for virtual, augmented and mixed reality together
Internet of Things
devices that can talk to each other over the internet
fifth generation mobile network
the newest fast mobile internet system, called 5G
artificial intelligence
computer programs that can learn and think a little like people
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