Virtual Reality: A Career As An Art Career

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You know those Virtual Reality goggles that you put on and suddenly your phone screen is 3 inches from your face? Or you put them on to watch Grey’s anatomy because your little sister is watching Paw Patrol on the TV and you don’t want to watch that? Or you put them on to experience Star Wars projections in your living room and you get to fight them with a lightsaber? It’s amazing how a little contraption can attach to an invisible connection with a phone and show you whatever you want. Now take that concept and put it into a movie theater. Yes, the room with surround sound and reclining rows of chairs and popcorn all over the floor and a giant screen that takes up an entire wall. Imagine sitting in a movie theater, and a second later you’re …show more content…

I wanted to do so many things and I couldn’t choose just one career. There was just no way I could only use one side of my brain and be completely and utterly happy. An art career wouldn’t use math and science everyday, and a STEM career wouldn’t use art everyday. So I researched and researched and researched and eventually decided to become a surgeon. I could use math and science daily, my parents would be proud of me, I got to help people get a better life. But as I did even more research, I started to miss art and writing. I was at a crossroads, and I didn’t have a single idea which road to take. In the shower one night, the idea of a virtual reality movie theater literally slammed into my head. It was such a relief that I laughed, to myself, while shampoo was running into my eyes. Becoming an engineer would allow me the freedom of developing the real-life dream, and so it seemed perfect. Even though I may have to move for a job, and it is not a traditional art career, becoming an engineer would be fit for me because it encourages critical and creative thinking, the benefits of the career including salary would be enough to pay off education debts, and an engineering degree can be combined with an art degree at some

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