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Clip of Markzuckerberg using VR

Impossible

  • VR can give you a surprisingly realistic taste of what it would be like if you could do the impossible

According to BBC news,

“The biggest way [VR is changing the workplace] is training and simulations. If you have to train somebody on a very expensive piece of machinery, you want to do it in a simulator.”

Expensive

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36279855

We have all wanted to experience travel and all it has to offer but frankly it is just too expensive.

Dangerous

  • climbing mount everest sound fun but extremely dangerous. Your one visit may be your last and so maybe it doesn’t sound to bad to climb a mountain in VR.

Applications for Virtual Reality

ALSO...

Jeremy Bailenson, the founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, says that...

“He has come to believe that experiences worth creating (or recreating) in VR are those that could be described with one or more of the following four adjectives: expensive, dangerous, impossible, and rare”

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/08/the_only_good_reasons_to_use_virtual_reality_and_the_current_vr_renaissance.html

Applications for Virtual Reality

The man who coined the term virtual reality named Jaron Lanier says

“he’s particularly concerned about the misogyny and “general weenie-ness” of gaming culture carrying over to virtual reality. He’d prefer to see it evolve into a platform for creativity and social interaction.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/08/the_only_good_reasons_to_use_virtual_reality_and_the_current_vr_renaissance.html

“The truth is, the long-term effects of VR are still unknown. Many side effects are thought to be only temporary, but long-term research studies are scarce so we don’t know for sure.”

Martin Banks, Professor of Optometry, Vision Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley told Digital Trends that...

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/virtual-reality-still-5-big-problems-overcome/

http://ytcropper.com/cropped/NC582e7359ebcad

“There is pretty good evidence, particularly among children, that if you do so-called near work, where you’re looking at something up close, like reading a book up very close or looking at a cellphone, that it causes the eye to lengthen and that causes the eye to become near-sighted,”

Health Issues with Virtual Reality

http://www.digitaltrends.com/virtual-reality/is-vr-safe-for-kids-we-asked-the-experts/

Social Aspects

  • Strapping a screen on your face for a long time may cause:
  • Dizziness
  • Eye problems
  • Being light headed

"Pretty soon we’re going to live in a world where everyone has the power to share and experience whole scenes as if you’re just there, right there in person,” Zuckerberg says.

Outline

However...

  • you find similar problems with using your phone or computer
  • Health issues with VR
  • Applications for Virtual Reality besides being used for video games
  • How VR can be the new big social platform
  • Conclude
  • Why more people should use VR

What we thought VR was

Potential Problems w/ Virtual Reality

Why you should use VR

  • The health issues behind having a giant screen in your face
  • How it will effect social skills of people who do use it
  • How Virtual Reality seems like it is only for people who play video games
  • This is just the first step into Virtual Reality and we can expect it to be a lot better.
  • VR has the potential to be used practically by anyone.
  • Overall, as technology advances, we should take the step to adjust and get used to what the future has to offer.

What is Virtual reality

"Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment."

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/virtual-reality

Samsung Gear VR

The Benefits of Virtual Reality

By:Hoang Pham

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