VR may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and education

Virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), e ...

, a computer technology that simulates an environment with which a user may interact as if it was actually there * ''

Virtua Racing ''Virtua Racing'', or ''V.R.'' for short, is a Formula One racing video game developed by Sega AM2 and released for arcades in 1992. ''Virtua Racing'' was initially a proof-of-concept application for exercising a new 3D graphics platform under ...

'', a 1992 arcade racing game by Sega *

Vocational rehabilitation Vocational rehabilitation, also abbreviated VR or voc rehab, is a process which enables persons with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive, and emotional disabilities, impairments or health disabilities to overcome barriers to access ...

* Spectre VR, an enhanced version of ''

Spectre Spectre, specter or the spectre may refer to: Religion and spirituality * Vision (spirituality) * Apparitional experience * Ghost Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Spectre'' (1977 film), a made-for-television film produced and writ ...

'' * ''

VR.5 ''VR.5'' is an American science-fiction television series first broadcast on the Fox network from March 10 to May 12, 1995. Ten of its thirteen episodes were aired during its original run. The title of the show refers to the degree of immersion ...

'', an American science fiction television series in 1995 * ''

VR Troopers ''VR Troopers'' is a syndicated live action superhero-adventure television series produced and distributed by Saban Entertainment from 1994 to 1996. The show tried to profit from the fascination with virtual reality in the mid-1990s as well as th ...

'', an American action television show from 1994 to 1996

Businesses

VR (company) VR-Group Plc ( fi, VR-Yhtymä Oyj, sv, VR-Group Abp), commonly known as VR, is a government-owned railway company in Finland. VR's most important function is the operation of Finland's passenger rail services with 250 long-distance and 800 co ...

, a Finnish railway company, formerly known as Valtion rautatiet ''(State Railways)'' * Valdosta Railway, in the US state of Georgia *

Victorian Railways The Victorian Railways (VR), trading from 1974 as VicRail, was the state-owned operator of most rail transport in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983. The first railways in Victoria were private companies, but when these companie ...

, in the Australian state of Victoria *

Viktor & Rolf Viktor & Rolf is a Dutch avant-garde luxury fashion house founded in 1993 by Viktor Horsting (born 1969, Geldrop) and Rolf Snoeren (born 1969, Dongen). For more than twenty years, Viktor & Rolf have sought to challenge preconceptions of fashion an ...

, 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) The Volunteer Reserves are the British Armed Forces voluntary and part-time military reserve force. Unlike the Regular Reserve, the Volunteer Reserves do not consist of ex-Regular personnel who remain liable to be re-called for military service. In ...

* Fleet Logistics Support, a squadron of the US Navy

Science and technology

VR (nerve agent) VR (Russian VX, VXr, Soviet V-gas, GOSNIIOKhT substance No. 33, Agent "November") is a "V-series" unitary nerve agent closely related (it is an isomer) to the better-known VX nerve agent. It became a prototype for the series of Novichok agents ...

, a nerve gas, also known as Russian VX, Soviet V-gas, Substance 33, or R-33 *

Venous return Venous return is the rate of blood flow back to the heart. It normally limits cardiac output. Superposition of the cardiac function curve and venous return curve is used in one hemodynamic model. __TOC__ Physiology Venous return (VR) is the flow o ...

, the rate of bloodflow returning to the heart *

Vibration Reduction Image stabilization (IS) is a family of techniques that reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera or other imaging device during exposure. Generally, it compensates for pan and tilt (angular movement, equivalent to yaw and pi ...

, an anti-shake lens technology by Nikon *

Virtual reality therapy Virtual reality therapy (VRT), also known as virtual reality immersion therapy (VRIT), simulation for therapy (SFT), virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET), and computerized CBT (CCBT), is the use of virtual reality technology for psychological o ...

, for the treatment of PTSD patients

Computing and electronics

VR photography VR photography (after virtual-reality photography) is the interactive viewing of panoramic photographs, generally encompassing a 360-degree circle or a spherical view. The results is known as VR photograph (or VR photo), 360-degree photo, phot ...

, the creation and viewing of wide-angle panoramic photographs, generally encompassing a full circle **

QuickTime VR QuickTime VR (also known as QTVR) is an image file format developed by Apple Inc. for QuickTime, and discontinued along with QuickTime 7. It allows the creation and viewing of VR photography, photographically captured panoramas, and the viewing ...

, an image file format developed by Apple for panoramic images *

Videocassette recorder A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the reco ...

, a device that records and plays back analog audio and video using magnetic tape *

Voltage regulator A voltage regulator is a system designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage. A voltage regulator may use a simple feed-forward design or may include negative feedback. It may use an electromechanical mechanism, or electronic components ...

, an electric circuit designed to maintain a constant voltage level *

DVD-VR The DVD-VR standard defines a logical format for video recording on DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM style media, including the dual layer versions of these media. As opposed to media recorded with the DVD+VR recording standard, the resulting media are ...

, 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 The Bristol VR was a rear-engined double-decker bus chassis which was manufactured by Bristol Commercial Vehicles as a competitor to the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline. Development The Bristol VR was originally designed for s ...

, a double-decker bus built by the Bristol Commercial Vehicles *

VR Group VR-Group Plc ( fi, VR-Yhtymä Oyj, sv, VR-Group Abp), commonly known as VR, is a government-owned railway company in Finland. VR's most important function is the operation of Finland's passenger rail services with 250 long-distance and 800 co ...

, a Finnish railway company

Other uses

Vanguardia Revolucionaria Revolutionary Vanguard (in Spanish: ''Vanguardia Revolucionaria'') was a political party in Peru founded in 1965 by various Marxist groups. Leaders included Ricardo Napurí (who created it after participating to the MIR Voluntary redundancy Voluntary redundancy (VR) is a financial incentive offered by an organisation to encourage employees to voluntarily resign, typically in downsizing or restructuring situations. The purpose is to avoid compulsory redundancies or layoffs. Reasons A ...

, a financial incentive offered by an organisation to encourage employees to voluntarily resign *

University of Iceland VR The VR buildings are a part of the campus of the University of Iceland. VR is short for ''Verkfræði og Raunvísindi'' (English: Engineering and Natural Science) The buildings were constructed in the 1970s and (as the name implies) serve as cent ...

, three buildings on the University of Iceland campus * VR, for ''Victoria Regina'', in the royal cypher of Queen Victoria