Virtual Reality Will Become Reality
It is clear now that virtual reality has a lot of potential in the field of psychology and it is a very powerful technology that can change minds.
We first learned that in order for virtual reality to be effective the user must feel that they are immersed into a different world of reality. The engineers of these VR head sets kept this mind and designed the head set to have strong visual graphics and interactive features such as using remote controllers to interact in the users virtual environment. Most sets also have you where some headphones to help with the immersion aspect. Some engineers are trying to add your sense of touch to the immersion to make it feel real. VR is suppose to trick your senses and mind to make you believe you are in a different reality than your own. Once the user is placed in the in the virtual environment its up to the developer of the virtual environment to express themselves or message through this platform in order to get the user to feel a certain way. Wether that is through paint a beautiful interactive game environment or depicting a story about the refugees in Europe. The point is to make you feel something. An innovator doing this now is Chris Milk who works with the virtual reality company called Vrse and they write Virtual environment stories of people of groups that need attention in the world and the attention they need is the attention of the people in power, UN and EU etc... Chris is able to bring empathy to a user by simply immersing them into the situation a group or person is experiencing. Virtual environments have a learning aspect to them when people are immersed to them. For example in article can Virtual Reality Make Us Better People they put in people with a white skin tone color in the avatar body of someone with a darker skin tone color and they notice that people in the virtual world treat them differently, in which creates sense of awareness and respect for people of different skin tone color. Overall I think that in order for virtual reality to be really effective it must must use live action filming because it something we can relate to because it is very similar in structure to our actual environment. Being in an animated environment does not feel as real compared to a live action one. Them lastly we need a clear message to develop in order to get our point out and have people support it.
We first learned that in order for virtual reality to be effective the user must feel that they are immersed into a different world of reality. The engineers of these VR head sets kept this mind and designed the head set to have strong visual graphics and interactive features such as using remote controllers to interact in the users virtual environment. Most sets also have you where some headphones to help with the immersion aspect. Some engineers are trying to add your sense of touch to the immersion to make it feel real. VR is suppose to trick your senses and mind to make you believe you are in a different reality than your own. Once the user is placed in the in the virtual environment its up to the developer of the virtual environment to express themselves or message through this platform in order to get the user to feel a certain way. Wether that is through paint a beautiful interactive game environment or depicting a story about the refugees in Europe. The point is to make you feel something. An innovator doing this now is Chris Milk who works with the virtual reality company called Vrse and they write Virtual environment stories of people of groups that need attention in the world and the attention they need is the attention of the people in power, UN and EU etc... Chris is able to bring empathy to a user by simply immersing them into the situation a group or person is experiencing. Virtual environments have a learning aspect to them when people are immersed to them. For example in article can Virtual Reality Make Us Better People they put in people with a white skin tone color in the avatar body of someone with a darker skin tone color and they notice that people in the virtual world treat them differently, in which creates sense of awareness and respect for people of different skin tone color. Overall I think that in order for virtual reality to be really effective it must must use live action filming because it something we can relate to because it is very similar in structure to our actual environment. Being in an animated environment does not feel as real compared to a live action one. Them lastly we need a clear message to develop in order to get our point out and have people support it.