Virtual Reality

I took a look at the store and people pay money to customize everything about their avatars. Some people use their avatars as extensions of their personality or to show parts of themselves that they would not show in real life; while others make their avatars completely different from themselves. The choices are endless and people seem to spend a lot of time trying to make their avatar perfect. In Tom Boellstorff’s “Personhood”chapter of his book Coming of Age in Second Life Boellstorff describes how people make avatars that are completely different from themselves. He notes that one Second Life player remarked that in real life they are weak while in Second Life they appear strong. Along with this there is an option to pay a monthly fee and you are able to build rooms. People can create what they want their life to look like verses what their life is actually like. But, it is not just the fact that people can customize their own avatar but they people can create their own worlds along with their own rooms. What this reminds me of is The Sims where you could create your own world and people would spend days doing so. I spent some time looking at the different landscapes that people created for people to chat in. It made me think about how much time people spent planning out what they wanted their world to look like. Much like with software that lets people design buildings and rooms online the building part of Second Life lets people bring their ideas to virtual life. The builders are bringing their own material culture into their own virtual world. However, unlike the programs used to design jewelry, buildings, and rooms on computers now these landscapes will never be brought into the real world. But as Mike Press explains in his article “Handmade Futures: The Emerging Role of Craft Knowledge in Our Digital Culture” the use of computers to design is becoming a craft itself.

A 4 screen room starts looking more realistic every second. The hot sun and scent of the long grass make it seem like you are actually there. On the screens, there are lions, zebras, and elephants. But the lions stick out to you. They are eyeing you down, and slowly walking towards you, ready to pounce. But they can’t because it's just a screen. Well, that's what you think This is exactly what happens In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian story, “The Veldt.” It takes place in the future where virtual reality was at its most real. There is a room in the house called the nursery, and it is a room where the walls are big screens that make it seem like you are actually there. Somehow the nursery turns the screen into something real. The parents are lured

Although this specific program will likely not become available to average consumers, the same foundations for the simulation will be available on the marketplace while being affordable at the same time. In time, applied use of virtual reality such as the Oculus Rift will become mainstream and accepted in everyday life not only due its entertainment value, but also due to its affordability for consumers everywhere. Thoughts of virtual reality often resemble fantastical scenarios reminiscent of scenes in movies with similar themes like Gamer, The Matrix, Total Recall, and Inception. After one delves into the VR technology in products such as the Oculus Rift, one will begin to believe, and he or she will brace themselves for the tidal wave that is the paradigm shift of virtual reality.

My name is Kerry Huxley, I am a recent graduate of Prosper High School. It has come to my attention that there is a debate whether or not we should accept or deny an offer made by Virtuosity regarding there new virtual reality system. I believe we should not accept this offer due to the flaw that technology can provide.

The pros of virtual reality outweigh the cons of virtual reality. Virtual reality help a lot of people that are lonely and giving them some help, maybe boosting their confidence or even providing them with information on how to do something like getting a date. According to the source: “ ‘A lot of people are lonely.’ Anderson admits. ‘ They want some sort of entertainment or companionship or a little bit of both.’” (Article 2, Page 8) This shows how, virtual reality can be used to help out the lonely people, the people that don't have confidence. Virtual reality is more of like a voice for the voiceless. Also, another way virtual reality shows how it has many pros, and those pros beat out the cons the following shows this from the text (My Virtual Girlfriend) : “I’ve been in a real relationship for almost a year and , in some ways, playing My Virtual Girlfriend reminded me of what my boyfriend and my early dalliances felt like.” Furthermore, both quotes support the claim of how people are struggling and disabled people, letting people believe, and it gives a pro over a con. It doesn't let people struggle, it gives people options, and you may ask how? Well, virtual reality allows you to believe that you are this, you are good at this that feeds into your mind and you begin to build your confidence to get that entertainment to go out

[Many clients,] some of whom were not successful in previous imaginal therapy, found positive results from VR treatment. (Rothbaum et

In this type of therapy there are multiple advantages and disadvantages in using virtual therapy. The therapy is known to be more successful than any other therapy. The technology that is used in making a virtual environment is a push into better and newer technology for new therapy ways. Being able to help someone who cannot even walk out of their own house or go anywhere else is a huge accomplishment for the psychology world because they can now help more people who most likely needs it

Medical Applications of virtual and augmented reality: Virtual reality is an interactive simulation that makes you feel like you are somewhere you are not. It is now starting to be used in the medical field. For patients that are in pain, virtual reality can be used to make it seem like they are in a different happier place. Studies show that it has the same effectiveness level as morphine, possibly even more effective. For therapists who help people with different fears, virtual reality can help conquer the fear. For example, a virtual reality for people suffering arachnophobia allows people to experience what it is like to have spiders surrounding them. Virtual reality can also be used for surgical training. Surgeons can practice surgery without the fear of hurting or injuring an actual patient. This is helpful because if they mess up, they do not have to deal with the consequences that come from surgical mistakes. Virtual reality is a very new and upcoming idea, and in the near future it has the potential to become much more common in a healthcare

Virtual Reality was an invention that revolutionized the world of entertainment. So basically, here are 3 quotes from Tom’s Guide. First one is “What was once the stuff of Hollywood fantasy has now become reality.” So virtual reality made everything that was only real in movies reality. The second quote is “With its high refresh rate and low latency, most people shouldn't experience motion sickness in theory.” What it is saying is that you won’t get motion sickness from playing on a VR system. The final quote from Tom’s guide is “Filmmakers have begun to experiment with the Oculus Rift to make an audience member feel like he or she is part of the film.” Basically, the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will not just do games, but also TV shows and movies once they are able to. In conclusion, virtual reality can be very helpful for most kinds of entertainment.

There are many new and emerging technologies that have come around that have changed the field of healthcare as we know it. One of the biggest of these is Virtual Reality, which once was but a dream of how amazing and advanced the future would be, is now is evolving into a legitimate reality. And the new innovations of this tech have been greatly helping Health Care in many ways, from helping patients with extreme phobias or PTSD, to training doctors for surgery. Virtual Reality (VR) is defined as “The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with

Giovanni Albani’s Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson’s Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration covers the negative implications in individuals with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) during and after the use of immersive virtual reality. His argument is against the use of virtual reality in people with the incurable disease. In a series of tests involving twenty-three PD patients, six of them encountered and reported hallucinations of objects that never existed in the virtual environment initially. As time went by after the assessment, the same six PD patients experienced hallucinations outside of virtual environments.

* A virtual world that appears real to any observer, seen through an HMD and augmented through three-dimensional sound and tactile stimuli

VR tech can create a full immersive experience which is able to trick the brain: by sending images to the brain extremely quick, the mind cannot tell whether what we’re seeing is real or not. And by creating a psychological presence, VR makes the mind believe that what it sees in pure reality in which we become gradually immersed. What happens when this virtual reality is a pornographic one? We’ll get there in a minute.

Randy Pausch was born on the 23rd of October in 1960 in Baltimore Maryland. He was fortunate to have a great set of parents and a happy childhood.4 He attended grade school in Columbia, Maryland, and then received a Bachelor’s Degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1998 Pausch also received a Ph.D. computer science degree from Carnegie University. He made a career out of teaching as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, then at Carnegie Mellon. While he was at University of Virginia teaching, he took a leave of absence where he went to become a Walt Disney Imagineering where he worked on the Aladdin VR Project, as well as continuing to do work with Disney’s virtual

Seeing is believing, these words are the best combination to understand the meaning of Virtual Reality (VR). VR is one of the best asset and aspect of our future. No other technology has seen such a revolution like VR has. It is practically in use in almost every field such as entertainment, gaming, defense, robotics, medical, healthcare, military, education, fashion, heritage, business, engineering and many more fields. VR sometimes called Virtual Environment has drawn much attention in the last two decade. Extensive media coverage causes the much more rapid increase in the interest of the masses. Very few people, however, really know what VR is and what are its open problems are. In this report a historical overview of virtual reality is presented, basic terminology as an introduction are listed, followed by applications of this technology in science, work, and entertainment areas. Its present developments are thoroughly discussed in this report. Finally, the future of VR is considered in two aspects: technological and social. New research directions, technological frontiers and potential applications are pointed out. The possible positive and negative influence of VR on life of average people is speculated.