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• VR
  VR

  abbreviation

  virtual reality.
• v.r.
  v.r.

  abbreviation

  reflexive verb.
• V.R.
  V.R.

  abbreviation

  Queen Victoria.

VR

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. virtual reality.

2. voltage regulator.

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v.r. ² American  

abbreviation

1. reflexive verb.

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V.R. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Queen Victoria.

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VR British  

abbreviation

1. variant reading

2. Victoria Regina

3. virtual reality

4. Volunteer Reserve

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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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VR v.r. V.R.

“So the bar is pretty high for VR to be worth it,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Next to it, a plant worker wears a VR headset to record his own endeavours to demonstrate what successful picking and sorting looks like.

From BBC ● May 4, 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

Today’s clunky VR headsets will be replaced by unobtrusive devices, perhaps embedded in contact lenses or even brain-computer interfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

I’m considering adding motion—like a VR fish tank, so you can watch species flit by for hours—when there’s a ping and I have a message.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

Stat. v.r. open plains        4.6 Upper ashy-brown streaked dark-brown; upper base tail rufous-brown; side tail tipped white, banded black; forehead rufous streaked dark-brown; eyebrow white; under whitish streaked dark-brown; f., sim.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert

Stat. v.r. mallee, scrub        8 Upper brown; wings brown barred white; tail brown, slightly tipped white; under grayish-brown; long legs; shy, runs; f., smaller.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert

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 Leach, John Albert

Stat. v.r. dry scrubs        5.3 Upper brown; base tail chestnut-red, tip white; eyebrow white; under streaked black, white; f., sim.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert

T. Stat. v.r. tussocks        5.2 Upper brown streaked, lined blackish; throat, chest gray faintly streaked black; tail reddish-brown; f., sim.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert

With many V.R. headsets I’ve tried — and I’ve tried a lot — the initial novelty fades, and minor annoyances, like blurry graphics or a lack of compelling apps, start to pile up.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

But along with the headset, the product takes up precious space in a living room — and unlike a laptop or smartphone, V.R. goggles instantly make a tidy room look cluttered.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Still, more often than not I found myself wondering why a game should be played in V.R. instead of on a television screen.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

I felt out of place at my first V.R. party.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

Robert Wilks, porter, Number 93, called four-wheeled cab, V.R.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville