Smartphones are also where the virtual and the real meet most directly and merge into something with yet another fancy name: “augmented reality”.

智能手机也是虚拟和真实世界最直接的碰撞之处，两者在这里合并成一个新的花花世界：“增广现实”。

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Virtual and augmented reality could radically improve professional training.

虚拟和增强现实可以彻底改善职业培训。

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Augmented reality is a vital branch of virtual reality and has been used in so many fields such as commerce and education.

增强现实作为虚拟现实技术的重要分支已经被成功地应用到商业、教育等众多领域。

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In addition, Valve's Michael Abrash will discuss the hardware challenges that lie ahead and possible solutions for virtual and augmented reality in 'Why Virtual Reality is Hard (And Where it Might be Going).

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It combines all the "realities" into one: physical, virtual and augmented (reality superimposed with sound or graphics).

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Other technologies such as QR codes, augmented reality and smartphone apps are already competing to make virtual shopping and mobile payments a reality.

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