Monday, 31 March 2014

Week 5

So, this week's topic is Interaction.
Its importance in our life, its significance and it's future possibilities.

In my opinion, i think the whole idea of virtual reality that can interact with our mind is so so crazy, as in a good and bad way.

Starting with a good way. It gives so much opportunities for people, that it blows my mind. It makes life easier. for, example, Google Glasses, we no longer need to hold something in our hand to take a picture, or to check our emails. We say it, and the magic glasses do it for us. But i guess, even smart phones have a some sort of a similar idea, called the "Voice control', you tell you phone what to search on the Internet, or to call someone.. it is doing what it was told to do. Plus,  it gives a good idea for home videos, you can film from your point of view. People can experience whatever you have experienced.

The other good thing, is the learning outcomes from the virtual realities. We can learn how to drive, fly, etc. Which reminds me of the episode of Big Bang Theory, when one of the main characters was learning how to drive . The same thing happens in the video games, when the virtual reality interacts with your minds. The other day i went to the Event cinema, while we were waiting for a movie, we decided to play on one of the games in Galaxy world. We play a 4D zombie killing game. First of all, it was isolated, we had to wear 3D glasses, the seats and the guns were shaking as we were shooting zombies and the cold air was blowing into our face, unbelievable experience, very real, gives you goosebumps. Extremely realistic.


Now, the negative. I believe that, as soon as we will experience, virtual reality as something normal, we will loose sense of actual reality. For instance, we might loose sense of fear. As the virtual reality does not hurt, for example the virtual driving , if you crash you can start all over again, but if you crash in real life, it will hurt...alot. Or for examples if we will play video games all the time. Killing others wont be as horrible thing to us, as we know that it is not real-real. So, when a kid loses his sense of reality and starts stabbing people, he will not feel guilty or immoral  because in virtual reality he does not really kill anyone, so it must be same with the other reality.

Another issue with virtual space , is that people can get even more isolated. But this more relates to the robots, and cyber-humans. A few months ago, i was watching a documentary, how now there are more people who do not have time for normal relationships, having family or just a partner, because it is complicated. If Cyber-Humans will became more and more accessible some people might loose any connections with real people, as humans have their own problems , views and opinions, they can not be programmed in order to pleasure or satisfy another person. Robots will make relationships easier, no problems, it will do what ever the person wants, it will say whatever that person wants to hear. Crazy. Which reminds me of an episode of Futurama, when it explains what would happen if real people will date robots.
DONT DATE THE ROBOT



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