What I learned this week (06/03/2026)

Philip a PHD student has come in to discuss about UX and Spatial Design, and designing for VR.

XR- Extended reality (The umbrella term for all titles)

MR- Mixed Reality. (The other umbrella Term for all titles)

VR- Virtual Reality

AR- Augmented Reality/ AV- Augmented Virtuality

Virtual Reality was incredibly over hyped, that fell off pretty quickly.

The development of VR has evolved incredibly fast, with clunky headsets and setups with wires and sensors, to then just a simple wireless headset, and two optional controllers within 6 years.

There are 4 pillars of VR

All pillars combine into a term called ‘Presence’ which creates a subjective psychological sensation of actually ‘Being there’ in a digital space.


Problems of VR