INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENT ON EXCHANGES IN REAL AND VIRTUAL SPACES
The
trouble with virtual reality
As
virtual reality simulators become more realistic and immersive, people may lose
touch with actual reality. The cartoon shows a person in a virtual reality
headset stepping of the edge of the word ‘reality’ into some sort of unstated
post reality void.
Virtual reality redefines and reshapes
the privatization of public space. It brings people new forms and practices with technologies. The user
accesses a computer-simulated world which presents "perceptual stimuli" to the user, who in turn can manipulate elements of the
modeled world. Such modeled
worlds and their rules may draw from the reality or fantasy
worlds.
These new forms and practices extend
the flow of information which originally and mainly within the digital spaces
to physical spaces, leading to the blurring borders between digital and
physical spaces.
A very interesting document, Emma!
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