IPA IP 2025 Question 19
A question IPA Japan published in 令和7年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問19, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Among the examples of the use of AR or VR, which are technologies that use virtual environments, which of the following is the most appropriate example of the use of VR?
Explanation
A disaster drill inside goggles that project a virtual space — VR replaces what the user sees with a computer-generated world.
VR (virtual reality) uses a head-mounted display that covers the eyes, so the user sees only the virtual space and feels present in it. Fires and earthquakes that could not safely be staged for real can be experienced for training. AR (augmented reality) instead keeps the real world in view and lays digital information over it, usually through a smartphone camera or smart glasses.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- •(b) — furniture overlaid in real time on one’s actual room, seen through the camera, adds to the real world: AR
- •(c) — past buildings and explanations shown over the actual scenery of the historic site are AR
- •(d) — videos of living things laid over the pictures and photographs in a book are AR as well
Key rule: VR replaces the real world with a virtual one (immersive, usually goggles); AR lays digital information over the real world (usually a camera view); MR blends the two so that they interact.
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