VR

• V.R., V. R.

VR

1. (British) Initialism of Victoria Regina (on coins, letterboxes, etc.) The royal cypher for Queen Victoria, queen regnant of the United Kingdom.

   Synonyms: VIR, VRI, VI

2. (rail transport) The station code of Virar railway station in India.
3. (Australia, rail transport, obsolete) Initialism of Victorian Railways.

VR (countable and uncountable, plural VRs)

2. Initialism of virtual reality.

   Coordinate terms: AR, augmented reality, MR, mixed reality, spatial computing, metaverse, CPS, cyber-physical system; RR, real reality, IRL

   • 1993 April 7, legba, “And I refuse, I refuse”, in parcftp.xerox.com/pub/MOO/contrib/mail‎^[1]:

     But I know this. I know that when someone violates my peace, my conversation, my lovely, little VR diversion by repeated, remote rape, it reminds me....It reminds me, it makes me remember.

   • 2020 December 22, Tyler Colp, “The Vtuber Industry: Corporatization, Labor, and Kawaii”, in Vice‎^[2], archived from the original on 22 December 2020:

     (Cover started out as a company in the AR and VR business, but moved into the virtual talent sector; Ichikara is a startup designed to support their virtual talent)

3. Initialism of variant reading (of a manuscript)
4. Initialism of vocational rehabilitation.
5. Initialism of Volunteer Reserve Services Medal.
6. Initialism of visual range.
7. Initialism of vitrinite reflectance.
8. (aviation) The rotation speed of an aircraft (the speed during takeoff at which the pilot raises the nose in preparation for liftoff).
9. (medicine) Initialism of vaginal ring.

• (visual range): Vr

(virtual reality):

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

(visual range):

• BVR (“beyond visual range”)
• WVR (“within visual range”)

(aviation):

• V1
• V2
• VD
• VMO
• VNE
• Vs
  • Vs0
• Vx
  • Vxse
• Vy
  • Vyse

(other):

• VR tube

VR (not comparable)

1. Being compatible with or existing within virtual reality.
2. (video games, obsolete) Of a command: resulting in an action taken in character within a text-based virtual world, as opposed to a configuration change, etc.

   Antonym: meta-VR

• R/V, RV., RV, R. V., R.V.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeːˌær/, [ˈʋe̞ːˌær]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeːˌærːæ/, [ˈʋe̞ːˌærːæ]
• Rhymes: -ær

Originally an initialism of Valtionrautatiet (literally “State Railways”), the name of the state-owned company that maintained the Finnish railway network. It was later merged into the newly created VR Group, restructuring the existing company into a private one by 1995 (which however remains government-owned).

VR

1. The Finnish government-owned railway company; VR Group.

From English VR.

VR

1. VR; virtual reality

   Synonym: virtuaalitodellisuus

   VR-lasit ― VR headset

• IPA^(key): /ve.ɛʁ/

VR m (plural VRs)

1. (North America) initialism of véhicule récréatif (“recreational vehicle”): RV

From English VR.

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟ia̠ːɾɯ̟]

VR(ブイアール) • (buiāru) 

1. initialism of バーチャルリアリティ (bācharu riariti, “virtual reality”)