It was a cold and chilly night. Jax spent three hours waiting in line for the newest game, Eden. This game was the pinnacle of virtual reality gaming, boasting that if there was no menu, you could confuse it for reality. VR has been around for quite some time now. The military used it for combat training, and corporations used it for product simulations. Eventually it was released to the public around 20 years ago. Ever since then, the competition between gaming companies became fierce. That was until ROYAL Gaming took the spotlight. With some of the worlds top scientist and developers ROYAL Gaming created Starfire, an incredibly successful space exploration vr game. The income per year was far into the billions. This gave them absolute dominance …show more content…
Jax was 5’11” and was fairly built, a rather average face and the only eye-catching thing was that he had Snow white hair. Jax had a rough childhood, his parents passed away over 4 years ago when he was 15. Being the only child, he stayed with his older cousin Rose. She is 25, 6 years older than Jax. She was his lifeline, having nowhere to go, she was the one who took him in. She saw him as her brother and did everything she could to support him, including nagging him relentlessly. Even during the nagging, Jax felt nothing but respect for her and would try his best in every occasion trying pay back her generosity. Jax had a hard time fitting in at school, especially after his parent’s accident, so he spent most of his time alone playing games. His favorite was Chance. It was another fantasy VR that will be the outshined precursor to Eden. Both he and Rose were good at gaming, Rose always had a large group around her as she was one of the better female players and more importantly very beautiful. Jax however only joined a party when it was necessary, even then he would usually decline which led him to miss many events. Still he was a skilled player and some guilds tried to invite him but they would be declined. Instead he created his own guild called One Man Army. Naturally this guild only had one member. He thought it was cool, and refused to let others convince him otherwise. This was the aspect he looked forward to most in Eden, complete freedom. The creators said that Solo players would have just as much opportunity as guilds and parties. Of course, there would always be disadvantages to both but they were considerably decreased for the solo players. This is why he chose to be a
Disasters can be so impactful; some can forever change the course of history. While many at the time thought this story would soon pass, and with it all the potential bad publicity, the story of the Triangle fire spread quickly, and outraged many people. On a beautiful spring day in March 1911 when 146 workers lost their lives, a fire would prove it could do what years of reformers had failed to do, get the government on the side of the workers. I would argue that the fire largely impacted the country. Specifically, the Triangle Fire ended up changing New York’s interconnected political and economic scene, and spurred on the creation of stricter safety codes. For the first time owners would hold responsibility for their actions. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris; being indicted for manslaughter was proof of this. Social change seemed to be spurred as well; the general public and newspapers would come back the workers of New York. Large institutions would suffer as well. Tammany Hall would be feared less and less by waves of new immigrants. The largest change brought about by the blaze would be legislation. Twenty-five bills, recasting the labor laws of the state
our narrator, the central focus of the novel. Finny is five feet eight and a half inches tall and
The statement “Killing 150,000 people in less than a second actually allowed fewer lives to be lost.” might sound horrendous. However, that statement is the reason why the United States was able to win the Second World War. In contrast to this statement, some people might argue that it is inhumane to massacre that many people in less than a second. The dropping of the atomic bombs on August sixth and ninth of 1945 was the correct decision for American in order to effectively and efficiently end World War Two. America should have dropped the bomb because it saved American lives, there was a lack of incentives not to use the bomb, and dropping the bombs was the quickest way to end the war.
co-existed with their people and made sure that a good kill was worth the effort and danger that
Altho somewhat similar the two stories are very different in many ways. The first story is called “Mystery of Heroism” by Stephen Crane and the other one is “To Build a Fire” by Jack London. Both of the books are part of the short story genre and realism stories. The author's purpose for writing the “Mystery of Heroism” is to tell a story about a brave man who went to get water for a dying man. The purpose for writing “To Build a Fire” is to tell about a man and his dog and how he tried to fight the below freezing temperatures to stay alive. Both authors use realism because they want to tell real stories about people and how they had to overcome struggles in their lifetime. These two stories have similarities but they are way more different than anything else. One of the stories is about a man who has to overcome fear to get water for a man.
Prescribed fires are a well debated topic. While many people support them because they "help prevent" more wildfires, and they are "controlled," I see from a different point of view. There's a reason most building don't allow smoking within a certain distance of the building. Many people don't like it and it can damage their health. Same thing with prescribed fires. They add more pollution to the air we breathe. I know a lot of people support these kinds of fires because the help control fuels, but there are other ways.
Discover a universe of possibilities and explore the world like never before. Virtual Reality (VR) brings you to distant lands, places you in the middle of an Elvis Presley performance and brings you face to face with an inhabitant from a different universe.
The result is a new breed of fresh and exciting game genres that people in the early 1980s could only dream about. Video games is a huge industry and it is estimated that 70% of U.S homes will own a Video game system by the year 2005 (Cassandra, 2002). The idea of making a video game first appeared in 1949 when a young engineer named Ralph Baer was given an assignment to build the absolute, best of all televisions. He wanted to go beyond his original assignment and incorporate some kind of game into the set but it would take another 20 years for his idea to become a reality.
The Triangle Fire is a film that explains and shows what happened on March 25th, 1911. A deadly fire happened in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village. This is a factory in which mostly women worked in sewing clothing. These workers were immigrants who came from Italy and Russia in search of a better future and to live of course the American Dream. Unfortunately this was not the case, one hundred and forty-six people died, all but seventeen of the dead were women and nearly half were teenagers. Two people owned this factory, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck who were also immigrants they arrived from Russia only twenty years earlier, and became known as New York's "Shirtwaist Kings," The young workers at the factory worked for 13 hours a day for only $0.13 an hour.
“ Ninety-five percent of the nation’s adults and seventy-seven percent of its children can recite Smokey Bear’s slogan, and as for the bear himself, well, only Santa Claus ranks higher as a recognizable icon” ( Spinal 38). “Only you can prevent forest fires” were Smokey Bear’s iconic words, known by nearly every American in the Twentieth Century (“The True Story of Smokey Bear”). However, why was Smokey Bear needed? Why were forest fires on the increase? Actually, during World War II, Japan wanted to attack California’s forests as a scare tactic, playing on the country’s fears of losing valuable timber. Smokey Bear helped America prevent forest fires to preserve timber from being destroyed (Spinal 38). The acres lost due to fires decreased from 22
So now that we have gone through the history, let’s talk about what’s been going on with virtual reality today. What’s it currently being used for. Well like in the past it is still mostly used for entertainment and training purposes. For example when it comes to entertainment we already talked about “Google cardboard”. With the Google cardboard you can kind of go on a virtual tour of different places around the world. Another example of entertainment would be Sony’s Playstation VR which we also talked about earlier.
“VR introduces gameplay mechanics that simply aren’t possible with traditional gaming platforms” (Hoff). VR and AR bring a lot to the table. Virtual reality can cost anywhere from $10 with Google Cardboard, to upwards of thousands. Some people just want practicality, while others just go all out and get insane virtual reality setups. A new virtual reality experience is the Virtuix Omni which allows you to move freely without getting hurt. The only downside is it is super expensive and is still being developed, but looks like it will be amazing when completed. We still have to explore the realm of virtual reality that is untouched
Unique, original, and a work of art. Pride and ashes is beautifully written by a writer name Joy. Moreover, it is a fictional book about werewolves. Werewolves are supernatural creatures that are half man and half wolves. They travel or stick together in groups called packs.
People are like batteries. After long times of use, the battery drains and needs to be recharged. Similarly, after people have been connected with their surroundings and with society as a whole for extensive amounts of time, we need to withdraw and be by ourselves to rejuvenate. At the same time, if a battery is left without use for too long it will lose its energy holding capacity and begin to leak. If people are disconnected from society for too long, they may begin to become harmful to both themselves and the people around them. In a world where society has predetermined certain rules on how one “should” be like, people are constantly stressed, trimming off parts of themselves to fit into these unrealistic rules. As the pressure builds up,
Virtual Reality allows designers and developers to create an experience that is not real, but gives the effects and the experience as being real, hence, a virtual reality! There are many ways in which this can be used such as for games, simulations, training, experiencing a distant location from the comfort of your home and so much more.