Integrating Virual Reality into Our Social System Virtual reality (VR) is the creation of a highly interactive computer based multimedia environment in which the user becomes a participant with the computer in what is known as a “synthetic environment.” Virtual reality uses computers to immerse one inside a three-dimensional program rather than simulate it in two-dimensions on a monitor (Lewis 14). Utilizing the concept of virtual reality, the computer engineer integrates video technology, high resolution image-processing, and sensor technology into the data processor so that a person can enter into and react with three-dimensional spaces generated by computer graphics. The goal computer engineers have is to create an artificial world that feels genuine and will respond to every movement one makes, just as the real world does. Virtual reality has two fundamental qualities. One is the idea of immersion of a human into a computer generated scene, and the other is the concept of navigation through this virtual world. There are basic ways of entering a virtual world by way of computer and monitor with input device. However, the most complex uses a Datasuit along with the Eyephone device to fully engulf one into cyberspace with simultaneous six-degrees of freedom (Robst 2). The Datasuit is an instrumented full-body garment that enables full-body interaction with a computer constructed world. The Eyephone is a head mounted stereo display that shows a computer made virtual world in full color with three dimensions. This display can be computer generated or real via video cameras, which with sound delivered through the headset brings a dramatically authentic experience. During this century, responsive technologies are moving even closer to us, becoming the standard interface through which we gain much of our experience. One of the most exciting prospects of this technology is the creation of an artificial global city. Virtual reality provides the vehicle to conceive this global city. The intention being that the city contains enough people for groups to form affiliations, in which individuals from different cultures meet together, in the same space of virtual reality. The city might be laid out according to a three dimensional environment that dictates the way people living in different countries may come to communicate and understand other cultures. A special camera, possibly consisting of many video cameras, would capture and transmit every view of the remote locations.
The purpose of Priscilla Wald’s book, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative, is to explore the spread of disease and the effects it has. Wald does not focus on the loss of life or the medical side of disease, instead she chooses to focus on the spread of the idea of a particular disease, which she calls the outbreak narrative. She then looks at how each path leads to the containment of each disease. By doing so, she creates criteria which can be used to evaluate the spread of any idea; including the temperance movement. After exploring the facets of the temperance movement and comparing them to the mold Wald creates, we find that the movement fits into the outbreak narrative. Since the temperance movement took the form of an outbreak narrative, panic and a lack of knowledge plagued the United States and many parts of the world in the 19th century.
The term Virtual Reality is a very unique way of bringing life to a world which doesn't even exist. There are many ways by which people have been trying to bring in the consent of the audience and to grab their interest. The history of virtual reality is marvelous in terms of what it was and what it is now. When before 1960s virtual reality existed, it was popular with the term "Pygmalion's Spectacles". Then there was "View-Master" a device in which there was a circular disc having small pictures in it and to view these pictures a person has to use a viewer where he places the disc inside of the designated place and then view in the direction of light. Then from the year 2000 onwards there were many platforms
William Gibson's Idoru is a novel thick with implications and extrapolations related to the oncoming and (present) age of electronic para-reality. Stylistically, it is far from perfect, but in theme it has a firm grasp on the concept of the simulacra as it mimics, masks and replaces reality.
There are a number of ways it can be defined, such as augmented Virtuality, psychosomatic Virtuality and virtual reality (gaming), virtual is one of the most contributing factors to 2D and 3D animation which has come to also be known as "modeling through use of computer", with the use of specific modeling software to mold a three-dimensional
Albert Camus was a French writer who was very well known all over the world for his different works but especially with the idea of “absurdism”. Camus believed that something that was absurd was not possible by humans or logically. It was beyond ridiculous and therefore impossible. This was the basis of one of his most famous works, The Plague. The Plague is a novel that explores aspects of human nature and condition, destiny, God, and fate. The novel is about a plague that takes place in Oran, Algeria that is fictional, but it’s believed to be relatively based on a cholera outbreak in the mid 1800’s in Oran that killed thousands of people. Dr. Bernard Rieux is the protagonist but also is the narrator. However, he doesn’t admit to being the narrator until the end of the novel. Camus writes in the beginning that the instances in Oran are being told by witnesses of the plague. In The Plague, Camus wants his audience to read the book unbiasedly not knowing the narrator in order to take sides with the characters that one wants to and not to be persuaded by the narrators telling of the events.
The term Virtual Reality (VR) is used by many different people with many meanings. There are some people to whom VR is a specific collection of technologies, that is a Head Mounted Display, Glove Input Device and Audio. Some other people stretch the term to include conventional books, movies or pure fantasy and imagination. However, for purposes of this research, we restrict VR to computer mediated systems. We would define Virtual Reality as a way for humans to visualize, manipulate and interact with computers and extremely complex data.
Virtual art is the product of long-standing traditions in art merged with revolutionary technological advances. With innovations emerging almost as fast as end-users can test and master new systems, technology has dramatically altered our daily lives and changed our thought processes. Like many technological advances, virtual and cyber realities have been embraced, and often created by, artists that experiment with the myriad of possibilities that technology can offer. While there have been many works of art inspired and created by means of digital advances, the medium has yet to be defined and its boundaries have not yet been identified. Since technology and virtual art are just beginning to be explored, the medium is in its infancy and thus cannot be judged based upon traditional mores of art. Before virtual art can achieve prominence and respect within the art world, many barriers of tradition must first be abolished.
In Conclusion William Gibson created a cyberpunk/ postmodernism tale that has blurred not only the physical state between mechanics and human anatomy, but has as well blurred the line between the natural and virtual world. He is making the reader contemplate how both software and hardware have influenced the natural world. Gibson’s fictional world would have not been possible without the existence of software and hardware, that is why the distinction between them is very crucial and play a different part within the text. Without these two things, the reader would not be able to comprehend and relate to Gibson’s view on how our society is interlocking with the advances of technology and the normality of today will no longer exist in the future.
The world of technology is ever so changing. It has grown to where we have created different realities, both mental and visual. Psychologically speaking, we’ve created worlds and scenarios in which we are “ourselves” are another person and with the introduction and growth of this new technology, we allow for a greater escape from reality. We create new worlds, and/or a new being on the screen that we cannot be certain about something because what we see can be what we think it is. However, the consequences of spending the day in from of the screen are just as difficult to deal with as real life it becomes almost redundant to escape. Although it may seem fun and freeing to be able to have your own persona on a screen, the consequences of spending
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The source adds that, in recent years, augmented reality have been used in more varied ways. Augmented reality has been developed since its inception, for instance, it is now being used in smartphones to help users get better interface experiment, e.g., displaying information for the user about a product, shop or offers. Moreover, augmented reality is being used in global positioning system (GPS) and it is linked to an open-source database that helps users with directions (Hosch). This research paper will….
Virtual reality can be defined as a, "technology that enables users to enter computer generated worlds and interface with them three dimensionally through sight, sound, and touch" (Newquist 93). Virtual reality combines computer simulation and visualization into a single, coherent whole (Peterson 8). Researchers say it embodies an attempt to eliminate the traditional distinction between the user and the machine. Virtual reality is intended to provide a means of naturally and intelligently interacting with information (8). Virtual reality is contending to be the interface of the future, allowing ordinary users to use their senses to interact with complex data.
So what is virtual reality? It is sometimes referred to as immersive multimedia, it is a computer-simulated environment that can simulate some physical presence in places in the real world or imagined worlds. Most current virtual reality are primarily visual experience displayed either on a computer screen or through a head-mounted display. Some simulations include additional sensory information such as sound, tactile information or force feedback in medical, gaming and military applications. Furthermore, virtual reality covers remote communication environments which provide virtual presence of users with the concepts (Wikipedia, 2014).
Definition of virtual reality is "A technology that assures participants that he was actually in another place by replacing the main sensory input with data received by the computer" [6] [10]. One of the key elements of the virtual reality of cyberspace; it is a space fantasy or simulation environment. Which is always linked here is a virtual world and immersion virtual reality, perception is born into the world of alternatives such as ethereal or other point of view of our world
Virtual Reality is a new form of interactive media that is here to stay. A time may come when people might get tired of it but the chances of that happening are really low as the content that can be offered in VR systems is almost limitless.