Essay On Virtual Life

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Everyday is a new day, new creations and a new discovery. Guaranteed that back in 1976, Steve Jobs had no thought how successful, Apple, would be just forty-two years later. But with such a great discovery comes the equivalent amount of fallbacks. Although the large advancement of technology is positive; its often carries unforeseen consequences. In many cases they're not recognized until they've already caused significant amount of adverse effects. Somewhere, there's a group of friends sitting around talking to each other on their cellular devices instead of face-to-face. The somewhere else there is a distracted driver who just almost destroyed a family because they couldn't wait to reply to the text message. “More than 300,000 car accidents …show more content…

A virtual life is a computer-based environment, sometimes it includes moving around, or simply just sitting down at a computer or cellphone. For some people, it is a way to escape the real world, or to do something that they never have the chance to do. “Adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and physical disabilities often experience limited opportunities to participate in leisure activities, virtual reality (VR) technologies may serve to broaden their repertoire to accessible leisure activities” (Yalon-Chamovitz, 2008, pg. 273-287). VR helps picture what life is like with no problems, or problems that can be fixed. Some VR games require some movement and that can help with the obesity rate throughout the world. VR games include roller coaster rides, waterpark rides, skydiving, flying, and almost anything that anyone can think of. As video games become more popular in today’s societies life; the VR games are too. However, video games can mentally lock someone into never leaving their bedroom for hours on end. Sometimes those hours turn into days and days turn into months. That being said, spending so much time on video games can cause your muscles and nerves in ones body to simply “take a break.” During “that break,” one can gain a bunch of weight and they are simply too busy to do anything about

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