Modeling Reality With Virtual Worlds

There are so many functionalities with virtual reality. The possibilities are literally endless when it comes to virtual reality. One example is the game Minecraft. Minecraft is a sandbox game meaning that you are in control of everything. Its a block style game where you can create just about anything imaginable. Another thing that we can simulate is life itself. There are simulators out there where you can create an avatar of yourself and interact with the world like you do in real life. You can socialize with other players, go out to clubs, eat and play. Now there are some draw backs to virtual reality, the first one is the fact that its not real. Its just a simulation of real life. With that in mind, people can get caught up in their virtual worlds and lose grasp or reality. Now that is a very extreme and rare case, but it can happen. With technology advancing at a fast pace, there definitely is a threat of this happening more often. Of course the benefits are great as well. With travelling costs on the rise it is hard for businesses to send people out for meetings. Virtual reality will aid this burden by creating virtual meetings. Rather than being there physically, you can be there virtually yet perform the same tasks as if you were there in person.

Virtual reality is a breeding ground for creativity. Simply because you can see the results of your ideas almost instantly ,and with these advanced technologies, with precision and accuracy. Like i mentioned above, the game Minecraft allows users to create literally anything they can imagine. There are articles on what some of the people create and its just phenomenal. People build whole cities and towns to scale. It amazing what you can do with a bunch of blocks. Also since we can now simulate things we might not be able to do in real life, it gives us a whole new level of possibilities.

The future of virtual reality is going to be amazing in my opinion. Technology is growing at such a rapid pace, i cant imagine virtual reality not being just eerily realistic. I feel that one day virtual reality will actually be able to mock reality in some way. Its awesome but very scary at the same time. I think there should be a cap to what we can do with virtual reality but i know there are just going to be so many things we will be able to do with it. Not everything will necessarily be beneficial either. Im sure there will be people who use it in very unethical ways and in the future im sure we will run into many problems and will probably have to devise many laws regulating the functionalities or virtual reality.

Sources:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dianemehta/2013/04/30/after-second-life-can-virtual-worlds-get-a-reboot/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/11/05/second.life.virtual.collaboration/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/arts/television/06itzk.html*