Virtual Reality Group presentation

This blog post related to the virtual reality group presentation was very interesting to me and showed me another side, or should I say, one more advance of technology. Virtual reality, and as the name says, it is a hole different and separate reality that technology has provided us with. So far I have gotten in touch with it when I go to the movies, on a 3D movie, that has the ability to put me inside of it and convince me that is the reality I am on for as long as the movie goes. It is not very surprising when you actually go and watch the movie, because we are used to it, we know it exists, is not a big deal, so we act naturally. That is normal, but everyday technology comes up with something new, and some of them are shockingly real. I have actually seen a lot of videos of how elder people deal with virtual reality and they are very surprise, barely knowing how to act, and living all the emotions provided by the virtual reality.

Virtual reality is used mainly in entertainment such as games or illusions. Recently those kind of games have become very popular and they are amazing experiences for the players, who get to see how actually driving a car at a fast speed, or shoot at criminals is. It is a way to feel on our skin how all those realistic or no games. It is way more interactive than normal games because the players get to feel in the skin of the characters and to control them much more specified. Examples of virtual reality are experienced everywhere, and during the presentation I remember an experience I had last year. I was in Disneyland where one of attractions was to go in a room that appeared as an elevator that was getting bigger and longer, due to special effects that created a virtual reality.

Although this is mainly for entertainment, people were able to find a way of using it with an important purpose. The military used virtual reality in order to train and simulate danger and stress situations, because it is hard to do it in real life without harming soldiers. After this “practice” it was easier for them to face those situations on the field and real life. As everything, virtual reality has negative effects, but because it can actually help in a lot of everyday issues I have not mentioned in the blog post, I consider it very positive to our society