virtual reality

English

Etymology

Calque of French réalité virtuelle. virtual +‎ reality

Noun

virtual reality (countable and uncountable, plural virtual realities)

1. A computer technology that simulates a real or imagined environment so that the user can interact with it as if physically present.

Synonyms

• virch (colloquial)
• VR (abbreviation)

Related terms

• augmented reality (AR)
• real reality (RR)

Translations

virtual reality

• Arabic: وَاقِع اِفْتِرَاضِيّ m (wāqiʕ iftirāḍiyy), حَقِيقَة ظَاهِرِيَّة f (ḥaqīqa(t) ẓāhiriyya)
• Armenian: վիրտուալ իրականություն (virtual irakanutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: виртуална реалност f (virtualna realnost)
• Catalan: realitat virtual
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虛擬現實／虚拟现实 (zh) (xūnǐ xiànshí), 虚拟现实 (zh) (xūnǐ xiànshí)

• Czech: virtuální realita f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: virtual reality (nl)
• Esperanto: virtuala realo
• Finnish: virtuaalitodellisuus (fi)
• French: realité virtuelle f
• Galician: realidade virtual f
• German: virtuelle Realität f
• Greek: εικονική πραγματικότητα (el) f (eikonikí pragmatikótita)
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• Hebrew: מציאות מדומה (he)
• Hungarian: virtuális valóság
• Icelandic: sýndarveruleiki m
• Indonesian: realitas virtual
• Irish: réaltacht fhíorúil f
• Italian: realità virtuale f
• Japanese: 仮想現実 (かそうげんじつ, kasō genjitsu), バーチャルリアリティ (bācharu riaritī), 人工現実感 (じんこうげんじつかん, jinkō genjitsukan)
• Latin: realitas virtualis
• Malay: realiti maya, رياليتي ماي (rialiti maya), kenyataan maya
• Mongolian: виртуал бодит байдал (virtual bodit bajdal)
• Portuguese: realidade virtual
• Romanian: realitate virtuală f
• Russian: виртуа́льная реа́льность (ru) f (virtuálʹnaja reálʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: realidad virtual f
• Turkish: sanal gerçeklik (tr)
• Ukrainian: віртуа́льна реа́льність f (virtuálʹna reálʹnistʹ)