What is Virtual Reality(VR) and Augmented Reality(AR)? How Can We Use It as an English Teacher?

   What is Virtual Reality(VR) and Augmented Reality(AR)?

   How Can We Use It as an English Teacher?

    Lately we've heard the words Augmented Reality (AR: Augmented Reality) and Virtual Realty (VR: Virtual Reality). Both are new technologies that are still in their infancy. If you want, let’s start with the definiton of VR and AR.

   VR (Virtual Reality) is an artificial, computer-generated simulation or re-creation of an environment or situation in real life. In this technology, a simulated reality is experienced to the user wearing glasses, by stimulating the senses of sight and hearing. Virtual reality creates its own reality, completely produced and directed. You are breaking away from the real world and finding yourself in this fully created world. For example, you can find yourself at some point on Istiklal Street with photographs taken at 360 degrees. Or you can go inside a concert hall with 360-degree cameras. The most interesting thing is that you can find yourself in the games and control the characters you play in the game. Especially with headphones, handheld control devices and even auxiliary equipment such as walking platforms, you can find yourself completely inside the created world.

   AR (Augmented Reality) is a technology that incorporates computer-generated optimized images onto the existing reality and is capable of interacting with them.  In this technology, using mobile devices in a sense that displays the real world is blended. Augmented reality reflects the use of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and digital images such as digital photos and graphics. One of the best known examples is Pokemon Go. At your point where you rotate your camera, a Pokemon appears, adding more elements to your world. Likewise, Ikea also allows you to understand how to look at the products in your catalog by placing them on your mobile application thanks to that paint which you have chose is applied on wall by AR application. Thus, you can decide easily which color fix your home better.

   So, How does English Teachers can use AR and VR? For example, our topic is English Culture and we need to both attract notice them and help them to meet Virtual Reality so that we can take away them a museum to help of the Virtual Reality glasses. Thanks to that we can introduce our students with metarials which they have been used by English community such as books, wares, paintings, clothes. Thus, both students can understand the topic and they make permanent these informations about English Culture.

   So, what about Augmented Reality(AR)? As we know students can be distracted easily so that we can use Augmented Reality for attracting attention. For example, while we are introducing the animals to them, we can make watch them to animals with 3 dimensions, in motion and audible. I believe that this is a very effective way of learning and teaching about persistence.

  As a conclusion, we ought to utilize from technology in every environment especially in technology. If we are open to new ideas, our students will be more curious and enthusiastic. Thanks to that we can teach lessons will be more amusing and permanent. Teachers should use VR and AR in their lessons to become more understandable.

Here is my Augmented 
Reality(AR) examples which I created in HP Reveal Application :

PIGEON and BEE: