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Virtual Reality : History, Applications, Technology And Future

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Effects of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality has become easily accessible and goes beyond our wildest imagination, but it has older origins than one may think. Virtual reality programs, or devices, allow anyone to see an interactive world in a different dimension and experience events that may not be accessible in real life. One of the earliest attempts at virtual reality was a 360-degree mural like the one in The Sistine Chapel. “These paintings were intended to fill the viewer’s entire field of vision, making them feel present at some historical event or scene” (Hist. of VR, 1). Today, we have moved away from creating immersive worlds with paint and canvas, technology now processes endless realms of realities. In “Virtual Reality: History, Applications, Technology and Future”, Mazuryk and Gervautz discuss the hunger for more captivating realities other than our own. Over 20 years ago, they stated that, “people always want more. They want to step into a world and interact with it – instead of just watching a picture on the monitor” (Mazuryk, 2). As virtual reality pushes beyond purely entertainment, business and social applications, it will greatly improve work and everyday life, but in the long run will have negative effects on physical and mental health.
One way that virtual reality helps in business is for companies, like Procter & Gamble, that use virtual reality for early product developments by creating virtual prototypes for testing and predicting a product’s success

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