VR
abbreviation
VR
1 American
v.r.
2
American
abbreviation
V.R.
3
American
abbreviation
VR
British
abbreviation
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variant reading
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Victoria Regina
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virtual reality
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Volunteer Reserve
Etymology
Origin of v.r.2
From New Latin verbum reflexīvum
Origin of V.R.3
From Latin Victōria Rēgīna
Example Sentences
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Elisa Markula, chief executive of Finland's state-owned railway operator VR, said she hopes the service will benefit from a "renaissance" in rail travel across Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Across YouTube videos, video games, VR experiences and TikTok edits, audiences are located inside the environment itself blurring the boundaries between storytelling, role-playing, tourism and online participation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
“So the bar is pretty high for VR to be worth it,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality app that tied into Meta’s Quest VR headsets, will disappear in June, but remain an option for mobile phone users.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
I was a pop-culture icon, a VR rock star.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
S. Oceans. v.r. ocean 15 Dark brown; about bill, throat gray; wing-quills, tail black; bill, feet black; f., sim.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach
Mig. v.r. scrub 7.5 Head, upper, wings glossy olive-brown; shoulder darker; tail olive-brown tipped white; side tail feather five white bars; behind ear a narrow black streak; above this a lighter patch; under pale-brown; f., duller.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach
Insects. v.r. forests, scrubs 4.2 Upper olive-brown; throat, chest light-gray; abdomen white; tail white base; black band, tip spotted white.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach
Nom. flocks, v.r. swampy 25 Head, neck, breast, back, under rich reddish-chestnut; lower-back, tail dark bronze-green; winter; head, neck streaked white; f., sim.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach
Stat. v.r. dense scrubby gullies 6.7 Rich dark-brown; throat rufous mottled dusky; f., sim.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach
In general, the graphics and motion in the new PlayStation goggles looked clearer and smoother than Meta’s V.R. products.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Why use V.R. for making video calls, streaming movies or playing games when the existing methods already work well?
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Still, none of this is enough to make V.R. more than a niche, even as more brands, including Apple, prepare to enter the industry.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Naturally, some aspects of VRChat cannot compete with real life, and V.R. events suffer frequently from delays and glitches.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
Cakambau Rex, are overprinted with the "V.R." of the Queen of England.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
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