Mixed Reality (MR) is a layer of synthetic content that anchors and interacts with real–world objects in real–time. Mixed Reality (MR) experiences are congested with computer–generated objects visibly obscured by objects in the physical environment.

While Mixed Reality (MR) presents many design challenges, and much progress has been made in the platforms that host and support it, there is a tremendous opportunity to offer audiences various experiences and viewing modalities through Mixed Reality (MR). This should mean that more content can reach and serve a wider audience, including those who can’t find traditional Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) related to their capabilities, comfort, taste, or budget.

Mixed Reality (MR) has been widely used as a marketing term, and today many alternative definitions encompass some purposes of Augmented Reality (AR) or experiences that go back and forth between Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). However, the above description is more and more popping up as the accepted meaning of the term.

Mixed Reality (MR) doesn’t just happen in the physical or virtual world but is a hybrid of reality and virtual reality encompassing immersive technology, Augmented Reality (AR), and Augmented Virtuality.

A Mixed Reality (MR) experience seamlessly combines the user’s real–world environment. It can often be found in Virtual Reality (VR) experiences and setups, and it can be understood that pure Virtual Reality (VR) and pure Augmented Reality (AR) are both a continuum.

With Virtual Reality (VR) glasses, virtual and physical worlds are combined under a single reality, covering all the features of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies. It has the potential to create virtually anything that one can imagine with Mixed Reality (MR), to experience them in virtual and real worlds, and to create experiences beyond our imagination in the future.

Although Mixed Reality (MR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR) are technological concepts that are very close to each other, there are profound differences between them. Unlike Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR), it not only allows adding data or virtual objects into the physical environment but also allows users to interact with these data & virtual objects in real–time or to connect with other users in the physical space they are in can interact virtually. Unlike traditional user interfaces, Virtual Reality (VR) places the user in an experience. Instead of displaying a screen in front of them, users can interact with underwater and 3D worlds. Simulating as many senses as possible, such as sight, hearing, touch, and even smell. Almost the only limitations to the Virtual Reality (VR) experience are the availability of content and cheap computing power.

With Microsoft Hololens, Mixed Reality (MR) started to be discussed intensively again. As a result, it released and introduced the Windows Mixed Reality (MR) universe. Apart from Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leap, another popular wearable device for end–users, can be counted as another device that allows the Mixed Reality (MR) universe to enter our daily lives more.

According to some researchers, scientists, and futurists, Mixed Reality (MR) is seen as the beginning of singularity, the next stage in human evolution. It is difficult to predict with 100% accuracy what will happen in the world of the future; on the other hand, there is a fact that Mixed Reality (MR) technologies will offer much more creative opportunities than humanity could ever imagine. The Mixed Reality (MR) universe will be a concept that will occur more and more in every aspect of our lives, from industry to entertainment, due to increasing processor capacities and falling costs in the coming years. Combined with glasses and wearable devices that support Mixed Reality (MR) technologies, the benefits can be counted as Mixed Reality (MR) benefits, such as being able to watch football matches in Holographic and 3D format in the middle of our hall, without any TV or monitor, from different angles as if we were inside the field.

• Mixed Reality (MR) offers people an authentic experience beyond what they have ever imagined.
• Mixed Reality (MR) creates realistic physical interactions by colliding virtual data with natural objects.
• Thanks to Mixed Reality (MR), digital objects are positioned like natural objects in real environments. This positioning takes place in real–time and by aligning with wild things.