Reaction Paper About Virtual Reality

What is real? How do you define real? If you 're talking about what you can hear, what you can smell, taste and feel, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

-Morpheus (The Matrix) Many years ago, virtual reality was hailed as ‘Fantasy Science’ along with holograms, hover boards and teleportation. Of course, now with the vast improvements in technology, these may soon be reality, if not already. To understand the possibilities of virtual reality we must first understand how we perceive reality as a base. Everything we experience in life can be reduced to electrical activity stimulating our brains as our sensory organs deliver information about the external world. This interpretation is what we consider to

Virtual realities artificially create sensory experiences, which can include sight, hearing, touch, and in some cases, smell.

Firstly, we have to understand computer-simulated realities. Simulated realities are defined by a reality simulated to be indistinguishable from “true” reality. It could contain conscious minds which may or may not be fully aware that they are living inside a simulation. Virtual reality is easily distinguished from the experience of actuality; participants are never in doubt about the nature of what they experience. This is usually achieved by creating a physical environment that blocks out the other senses, such as sound-proofing so that the brain only receives signals provided by the simulation. This prevents external factors such as sounds to disrupt the user’s sense of reality and destroy the illusion. Simulated reality, by contrast, would be hard or impossible to separate from "true" reality. By substituting a main sensory source, it forces the user to be reliant on the program for new input and makes the brain more receptive to the data provided, creating the sense of surrealism. The main focus of these endeavors would be the user’s experience, not the graphics supplied or the reality itself.

From there, the first public 3D movie “The Power of Love” was produced and following in 1935, the first 3D color movie “Bwana Devil”. 3D movies then had been largely relegated to a niche in the motion picture industry because of the costly hardware and processes required to produce and display a 3D film, and the lack of a standardized format for all segments of the entertainment business. Nonetheless, 3D films were prominently featured in the 1950s in cinema, and later experienced a worldwide resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s driven by IMAX high-end