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    VIRTUAL REALITY When many people think of the term ‘virtual reality’, they imagine someone wired-up to a computer, wearing an odd helmet and making weird movements in the air. Well, this is partly true. However, virtual reality is basically computer-simulated reality. VIRTUAL REALITY is a computer-generated environment that is created by combining audio, visual and tactile human/computer interfaces to simulate a real-world environment. Virtual reality means that the user is fully immersed in a world

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    Augmented Reality vs Virtual Reality: How is AR different from VR To introduce, AR that enhances the existing reality with computer-generated enhancements and gives us the ability to interact with the virtual enhancements. The current form of AR are the apps that sync with your phone and are blending the real world with a pinch of the virtual world. AR is more common these days in form of pop-up 3D emails, photos and text messages on mobile devices. Augmented Reality vs. Virtual Reality Augmented

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    how we can use Virtual Reality to influence real world human behaviour for the sake of rehabilitation or pure training and whether it is effective or not. For a long time now people have become more adapt to the notion of a virtual reality. Video games, animations, simulations, the list goes on and on and isn’t going to stop any time soon. So why not turn something we love and want into a something we can utilize to our advantage and help us evolve. In recent years Virtual Reality has become more

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    Virtual Reality games are the new emerging type of video games. It is the digital simulation of the game era before video games existed; as for it is trying to recreate the illusion of actually being part of the game instead of playing it on a flat monitor. A broad definition of Virtual Reality according to Steven LaValle is “Inducing targeted behavior in an organism by using artificial sensory stimulation, while the organism has little or no awareness of the interference.” ( LaValle, 1). He states

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    The Metaverse:Virtual Reality and Its Effects on Mobility and Identity Mobility: the ability to move or be moved freely and easily.(Oxford Dictionaries). Mobility is a part of our everyday lives, in the United States it’s a necessity to be mobile. When most think of mobility images of trains, cars, and airplanes are the first things that come to mind. Yet a new conception of mobility is beginning to affect the lifestyles of all people. That is virtual mobility, which refers to the use of information

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    Virtual reality is defined as the electronic simulations of environments experienced through head mounted goggles and wired clothing to enable the user to interact in realistic three-dimensional situations (Biocca). It has recently gained attention throughout the gaming subculture in the form of the Oculus Rift, a new console that allows users to interact with a constructed 3D environment. However, its potential does not end there. It is already being applied to provide hands on training for surguries

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    Virtual reality Virtual reality is one of the main features of the twentieth century which was created for making the user feel the artificial environment as a real environment with the use of three dimensions of life sizes. By now, virtual reality has gained popularity and power especially among teenagers and young adults. But like every other technology process, virtual reality even has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. First of all, it is uncontradictable that virtual reality redefines

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    Virtual reality has been presented in pop culture as an extraordinary opportunity for every connected person to find his or her field. Exploring the vision of communication through the concept of virtual reality is simply discovering the limits of physical reality and how a virtual environment is presented to an individual’s senses. In “Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, Adorno and Horkheimer argue that all forms of popular culture are designed to satisfy the rising needs of mass

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    Humanity versus Virtual Reality . . . Aiding this process was a definition of information, formalized by Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, that conceptualized information as an entity distinct from the substrates carrying it. From this formulation, it was a small step to think of information as a kind of bodiless fluid that could flow between different substrates without loss of meaning or form. Writing nearly four decades after Turing, Hans Moravec proposed that human identity is essentially

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    Holly crap, you do get it! I was trying to formulate a response in regards to your virtual reality simulation question, when I did what I usually do when an answer is not forthcoming: I started to poke around in your profile, looking for more information. I hope you don’t see this as an intrusion; I figured that the posts are out there to be read. I came across your thread on ‘Speculation on the Nature of Reality’ and am blown away. I didn’t doubt your sincerity in your e-mail on Sunday, just that

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