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"Apple's long-rumored augmented reality headset will have virtual reality capabilities built in, too. It's codenamed T288, and it's currently scheduled to be released in 2020. While Augmented Reality, or AR, maps digital objects onto the real world, Virtual Reality, or VR, immerses users entirely in a digitally-generated environment."

"In Virtual reality, your screen becomes your world while in Augmented reality, the world is your screen."

"PwC has developed a virtual reality (VR) experience for its clients, allowing them to explore and better understand the range of potential future disruptions that could impact their organisation."

"Alder Hey, an important children's hospital in Liverpool, England, is working on integrating Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology into its operating theaters. The HoloLens is a headset that is able to overlay digital images onto a person's field of view, essentially mixing virtual reality with the real world. The hospital partnered with Black Marble, a Microsoft partner based in the UK, to implement the HoloLens so that it can be used by surgeons to easily access imaging and other data during surgery."

"To help space travelers recover from the kinds of mishaps that can occur in the reaches of deep space-mishaps that can end missions and potentially end lives-Lockheed Martin is combining machine learning and artificial intelligence with augmented and virtual reality interfaces to provide a bit more self-reliance to manned space exploration missions at distances at which it could take more than 40 minutes to get a reply from mission control."

Jaron Lanier - who pioneered virtual reality - stressed that we need to divide "artificial intelligence" into two different things: -the engineering and the science on the one hand -the storytelling about it, the narrative that we have about it, the fantasy life of it - perhaps the religion of it. It doesn't mean one is good and one is bad, but they're just different sorts of beasts.

Machines, even virtual ones, have biases. They are designed, necessarily, to favour some kinds of data over others. Unfortunately, we rarely question the judgments of mathematical models and, in many cases, their biases can pervade and distort operational reality, creating unintended consequences that are hard to undo.