Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality

Visualize a gamer strapping, mechanical, gloves to their hands, slipping virtual reality glasses over their eyes and walking into a space in which they will embrace themselves into a new reality. Now think of place you have always wanted to go like a relaxing place like the beach, an adventurous place like the rainforest's, or a scary place where you can slay dragons and become a hero. Now take that place and think about actually interacting in that space. That is what Virtual Reality gamers do every time they partake in the game. Now a day virtual reality is more than just a virtual environment for gamers, it also helps experiments for science, it is a form of medicine for certain patents, it helps problem solving, and also businesses. 

What is Virtual Reality

Figure 1: Sensorama
http://www.mortonheilig.com/InventorVR.html    

    

Figure 2: Virtual Reality Glasses http://i-am-fast.com/Pictures/virtual-reality-glasses.jpg

Virtual Reality includes a 3D computer environment where people interact over the Internet. Its like playing Call of Duty except instead of playing in your room or basement you become sucked into the environment on the screen and it surrounds you in a 3D way. Virtual Reality has changed over time. It first started out as a thing called sensorama, which was an interactive theater experience. For example, while watching a 4D movie on Rain Forests, fans will be blowing at the peoples faces moving their hair while the trees are moving in the TV screen. There will also be loud sounds of animals noises surrounding the viewer in a surround sound way so it feels like they are directly in the rain forest, then the chairs might move and shake through out the viewing depending on what is being present on screen. Now it has come to the point where all you have to where is special glasses and some gloves and it puts the gamer right into the experience. (shown in figure 2)

Effects of Virtual Reality

People now a days get very rapped up into this gaming facade. They do not realize the power virtual reality has on them. People become so involved within the game they are playing they forget how to interact in the real world. They become angry sometimes and when it really gets bad they can not tell the difference between reality and the game world. Communication between people becomes uncommon to the point where the gamer only wants to interact with   people online. In this video it shows the technology used in the present day. It also shows how people become so evolved into the game because of the use of the technology that embraces the gamer into the game further. The graphics are so advanced that it also helps the gamer into the game, which overtime can effect the gamer as I said above. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raD1w-NqlgQ