Virtual Realities

 VIRTUAL  VIRTU AL REALITIES

DEFINITION

Virtual reality is an artifcial environment that is created with sotware and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belie and accepts it as a real environment. On a computer, virtual reality is primarily experienced through two o the fve senses: sight and sound.  The simplest orm o virtual reality is a 3! image that can be explored interactively at a personal computer, usually by manipulating "eys or the mouse so that the content o the image moves in some direction or #ooms in or out. $ore sophisticated e%orts involve such approaches as wraparound display screens, actual rooms augmented with wearable computers, and haptics devices that let you eel the display images.

&irtual reality can be divided into:  The simulation o a real environment or training and education.  The development o an imagined environment or a game or interactive story. • •

SOURCE: http://whatis.techtarget.com/defnition/virtual-reality 

LITERARY WORK:

FlickerFadeGone by Carljoe Javier

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  -e (layed a$ain* "aied unil %e "as alone, -is &a'e !e$an &adin$ a"ay "aied unil i %ad disa((eared, T%e mornin$ 'ame* %e $uard sa" %e $un %an$in$ &rom is ar'ade ma'%ine and also %e $uard sa" %e 'o(y o& %e ar'ade+s maser #ey, Even %e o"ner doesn+ remem!ered "%a %e !oy loo#ed li#e, T%e ar'ade+s o"ner re(la'ed one o& %e ma'%ine !e'ause i "ouldn+ a''e( o#ens and %e dis(lay &ollo"in$ a disin' r%y%m: !an$* !an$* !an$* reload, T%is "as a'ually %is r%y%m* %is o"n r%y%m %e made only on %is mind,

 Analysis 'lic"er 'ade (one concentrated on a boy)s story that has been addicted to arcade or video games. This story is about see"ing our comort #one with someone or something. *t  +ust chanced that that boy ound that someone, his comort #one into an arcade game or video games.  The arcade became the boy)s world where he can ft in, a place where he can easily extend his wings and y with no uncertainties, a place where in he can passionately articulate his sel with no rules and limitations, a place he can command everything what he wants. -s i he went into another aspect, an aspect wherein he is so potent and he is the boss, an aspect di%erent rom the dimension o reality. e en+oyed every moment he had on playing those video games, because it is his perect time to unwind, to escape rom the reality and to be ree rom the stress and problems he has on the real world. e elt enormous and /somebody0 every time he plays those video games because it)s the opposite o the reality, the reality wherein he elt small to this big world, as i nobody cares or him, nobody could notice him. e1s li"e a thin air passing through us. e eels invisible and worthless. That1s why the world o arcade is very important to him, because or him, it)s the only thing that he had.  The moral o this story is that it)s not bad that sometimes in our lie that we dream to live in a antasy world, we are considering ourselves to be a princess living in a wonderul

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ow is &irtual 4eality depicted on the story5

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In %e sory* 5Fli'#erFade?one7 !y @arl)oe avier* al#s a $amer+s (oin o&  vie", I s%o"s %o" &anasies di/ers &rom %e realiy, In %e sory* virual realiy* "%en %e !oy realied %a "%a %e dream in %e 5virual realiy7 "ill never !e'ome real, -e realied %a "%en %e #ne" %a (eo(le never really #ne" %im a all* %e "as #no"n as %e $uy "%o %old %e #eys* o 0nd %e )ammed 'oins in %e $amin$ ma'%ines, I al#s a!ou %o" virual realiy a/e's a (erson on %o" %e so'ialies "i% o%er (eo(le* %a video $ames are no $ood &or (eo(le !e'ause i s%a(es our mind o !elieve %a %e 5&anasy7 "orld is %e 5real7 "orld, T%e !oy realied %a %e $ra(%i' "orld "as no &or %im* %a %e s%ould sar 01in$ %is li&e and so'ialie "i% o%er (eo(le* so %e didn+ 'ome !a'# o %e ar'ade,

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ow technology 6i.e. video games7 a%ects the thin"ing and behavior o the youth5

 Ans"er: Videos has a lot of advantages and disadvantages that a person can get. How it will help and not help a person behavior especially in socializing with other people. dvantages! •

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Helps a person a person thinks creative ways to achieve one"s goal in the ga#e or solve puzzles and other proble#s in short bursts. Helps i#prove a person"s analytical thinking. Helps a person i#prove his hand$eye coordination% &nd #otor and spatial skills. Helps a person in #ultitasking% si#ultaneous tracking of #any shifting variables and #anaging #ultiple objectives. '#proves a person"s perseverance% wherein a person never gives up% keeps on trying until he succeeds. 't helps a person to i#prove his or her #e#ory% especially in #e#orizing codes or places while playing in the ga#e.

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 person is introduced to violence% which a ga#e contains. 't #akes a person behave e#phatically.

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 person is isolated% worsening his ability to socialize

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 person tends to be aggressive.

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Videos ga#es teaches children the wrong values.

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Ga#es confuses people the sense of r eality fro# fantasy.

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-ad eects on children"s health that leads to obesity% skeletal disorders% and etc. Children is vulnerable to bad language and bad behaviors showed in the ga#es ddiction