Reality Splits: Seeing Different Worlds in Mixed Reality

Psychology Today | 13.03.2026 22:03
You are sitting across from a colleague at a table. Though you’re both wearing virtual reality headsets, you can see the room around you—it's just that on the table in front of you floats a cluster of digital objects, either red spheres or blue cubes. This is what mixed reality does: It blends physical environments and digital objects, allowing the digital and the physical to coexist and interact.
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