The Importance Of Virtual Reality

1256 Words3 Pages

Introduction Traveling the world and experiencing in a different world without moving out of the house was a thing in the past until modern technology made it into reality. Virtual reality is one of the recent groundbreaking technologies takes the perspective of an individual and change the environment in an instant. The purpose of this essay is to talk about how the technology is involved, significance of virtual reality, ethical and legal issues, security concerns, social problems, and further improvement for the future of virtual reality.
Background
Virtual reality is a recent groundbreaking modern technology that involves head tracking and depth perspective. Virtual reality works by creating a 3D mapping of the environment to give a realistic …show more content…

The significance of education in virtual reality is the simulation. The medical department takes full advantage of virtual reality for the simulation of medical emergency. One of the major simulation that are mostly used is surgery. According to CMAJ, those who were trained using virtual reality shows significant improvement than those who have no training (Palter). Stevens says that medicals use VR to see parts of the body to study, obtain accurate picture during surgery, perform types of surgery, and interacts with molecules (Stevens). The second significance is the usage of video games. Because of how virtual reality uses 360-degree video, surround sound, and depth perspective, it can give the user a good atmosphere of a horror scene or a shooter game. Such video games can give a much more awareness to their surrounding when it comes to these types of games. Lastly, virtual reality can give different scenery to those who cannot travel due to their medical situation. Those who prolonged to go to different world or around the world now have the chance to experience it. Smedley states that virtual reality program allows students with physical disabilities to participate fully in science experiments and activities (Smedley). This shows that virtual reality helps even those who are in special …show more content…

In healthy risks, users using virtual reality for a long period of time would develop disorientation and nausea. The author of Virtual or Real? The mind of cyberspace, Cartwright, has concluded that it’s possible to put them at a certain “at risk” in mental or emotional peril (Cartwright). The users who are in much more at risk are drug users, schizophrenia, and those who are emotionally unstable or have mental illnesses. Privacy is another social issue for Virtual reality users. When the user uses the headset, their perspective outside of virtual reality would put them at vulnerable situation such as hitting objects, walking towards the edge, or even receive a burglary. The users cannot see beyond virtual reality since their senses would be too focused inside the virtual

Open Document