VR may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and education

  • Vocational rehabilitation
  • Virtua Racing, a 1992 arcade racing game by Sega
  • 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
  • Vikrant Rona, a 2022 Indian film

Businesses

  • VR Group, 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)
  • V.R. Technology, sometimes called VRT, a famiclone designer from Hsinchu, Taiwan

Government and military

  • Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, unicameral parliament
  • 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

  • Virtual reality, a computer technology that simulates an environment with which a user may interact as if it were there
  • 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
  • Video renderer
  • Voltage regulator, an electric circuit designed to maintain a constant voltage level
  • DVD-VR, an editable optical media format

Transportation

  • V<sub>R</sub>, 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

Sports

  • Valentino Rossi (born 1979), an Italian racing driver

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