VR

VR may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and education

• Virtual reality, a computer technology that simulates an environment with which a user may interact as if it were there
• Virtua Racing, a 1992 arcade racing game by Sega
• Vocational rehabilitation
• Spectre VR, an enhanced version of Spectre
• VR.5, an American science fiction television series in 1995
• VR Troopers, an American action television show from 1994 to 1996

Businesses

• VR (company), a Finnish railway company, formerly known as Valtion rautatiet (State Railways)
• Valdosta Railway, in the US state of Georgia
• Victorian Railways, a former railway operator in the Australian state of Victoria
• Viktor & Rolf, an Amsterdam-based fashion house
• German Cooperative Financial Group (Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken)
• Cape Verde Airlines (IATA airline code)

Government and military

• Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council
• Volunteer Reserves (United Kingdom)
• Fleet Logistics Support, a squadron of the US Navy

Science and technology

• VR (nerve agent), a nerve gas, also known as Russian VX, Soviet V-gas, Substance 33, or R-33
• Venous return, the rate of bloodflow returning to the heart
• Vibration Reduction, an anti-shake lens technology by Nikon
• Virtual reality therapy, for the treatment of PTSD patients

Computing and electronics

• VR photography, the creation and viewing of wide-angle panoramic photographs, generally encompassing a full circle
  • QuickTime VR, an image file format developed by Apple for panoramic images
• Videocassette recorder, a device that records and plays back analog audio and video using magnetic tape
• Voltage regulator, an electric circuit designed to maintain a constant voltage level
• DVD-VR, an editable optical media format

Transportation

• V_R, an aircraft's rotation speed
• VR6 engine, a family of internal combustion engines made by Volkswagen
• Holden Commodore (VR), an automobile introduced by Holden in 1993
• Bristol VR, a double-decker bus built by the Bristol Commercial Vehicles
• VR Group, a Finnish railway company

Other uses

• Vanguardia Revolucionaria, a Peruvian political group
• Voluntary redundancy, a financial incentive offered by an organisation to encourage employees to voluntarily resign
• University of Iceland VR, three buildings on the University of Iceland campus
• VR, for Victoria Regina, in the royal cypher of Queen Victoria

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with VR
• All pages with titles containing VR