...Fantasy vs. Reality In the allegory of the cave, Plato describes the human perception of fantasy and reality. The story is about these prisoners who have lived in the darkness of an underground den since childhood. They are chained so that they cannot see themselves or the real world above them; all they can see are shadows on the wall in front of them. Somehow, a prisoner escapes the underground den and heads towards the light. At first, the light blinds him and he is unable to see anything due to the fact that he has lived his whole life in darkness and knows nothing but that. Once he is able to see, he is shocked by the world he has now been exposed to but will soon become accustomed to it. This story compares the reality the prisoner faced once he stepped into a new world, to the knowledge we gain once we are introduced to a new perspective of reality. Plato explains that once the prisoners are liberated they are “compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him…” (2). This implies that when humans face reality, they will experience pain and suffering. Do all humans experience agony when facing reality? Why is it that humans have to go through misery in order to come to a new realization? Plato also explains that if a human was dragged up from the underground den into the light he “would not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities” (2). This...
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...virtual reality. The world of virtual reality has endless possibilities to allow individuals to experience a new world. From its earliest uses to enhance gaming to its more developed use of training military personnel, the world of virtually continues to fascinate those who develop, use, and seek acceptance for it. The world of virtual reality is limited only by the imaginations of those who choose to enter its world. Understanding Virtual Reality Virtual reality (VR) involves an artificially generated environment created using software and hardware that allows the user to suspend belief and accept the environment around him or her as real. Virtual reality exists in two forms. The first involves the use of the virtual reality environment for educational and training simulations. The second involves the use of virtual reality in the interactive gaming and entertainment environments. If using a computer, the individual experiences virtual reality primarily through two senses: sound and sight. When an individual uses his or her personal computer, he or she is experiencing the simplest form of virtual reality known as 3-D imaging (Steuer, 1993). The user manipulates the keys or mouse to move the content of the image or to zoom in or zoom out. He or she may also use specially designed glasses, sensory gloves, or headphones to heighten the virtual world experience he or she has chosen to enter. As the user moves the gloves to interact with the scene, he or she experiences the movement...
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...and development of Virtual Reality leads to the loss of the ‘real reality’ in the future. II. Body A. Virtual Reality (VR) is an artificial three-dimensional environment created by computer technology and presented to the user in such a way that he/she almost accepts it as a real environment (Rajvanshi, 2005). 1. The way VR works a. Virtual reality immersion b. Virtual reality gear 2. Immersion and interactivity a. Requirements of a successful VR experience B. Human beings are endowed from their nature with a rich imagination. 1. Refuge from real life problems a. Imagination utopia b. VR utopia 2. Illusion of comfort created by VR C. Communication between people has been technologically modernized and in the future this tendency will probably continue. 1. Technologically modernized way of communication a. Telephone, internet today b. VR in future 2. Negative impact of technology a. Psychological, physical damages b. ‘Second Life’ influence c. Degradation of students D. Virtual Reality will cause a number of significant changes in people’s life and activity. (Cline, 2005) 1. Influence of technologies on behavior and interpersonal communication 2. Communication between people 3. Migration to virtual space 4. Degradation of mankind III. Conclusion In conclusion it can be said that the development and integration of such new technologies as Virtual Reality into everyday life are definitely...
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...Augmented reality as a marketing communications medium: Augmented reality has a significant impact on the discipline of marketing communications as well. It has the ability to create and enhance user experience by incorporating augmented reality systems into sales and promotion strategies by most of the companies (Peters and Karmarkar, 2012).In marketing communications augmented reality can be applied to the visualization of the products and also can be used to design a product and for its manufacturing more appropriately. For designing a product it is used for the demonstration of designers work in which all the virtual contents of a product will convert to the visible parts of the real world (Jebara and Eyster,1997).A user will have view...
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...Psychological effects of heavy usage of Virtual Reality Smith is a fourth grader who is all into video games; his goal is to have the latest video game. He lives in his video games. He goes to school every day physically and but mentally he is in his video game world, where he is the king of the racing cars and he is rich enough to buy the whole city. He always skips his homework because he cannot remember what he learned in school. While teachers are teaching, he is playing with his video games in his head and not paying attention in class. Teachers always contact smith’s parents and even parents seem to be helpless, because according to Smith’s parents, he gets very aggravated if they try to take his video games and Smith really gets violent with his siblings and friends. Smith wants to sit in locked room holding the remote controller in his hands where he can control several different cars in a second. He cannot remember anything what he does throughout the day because in his mind he is always in the second world. One day Smith was sitting in living room plying with his video games, suddenly his mom falls off from stairs and broke her arm. Instead of calling for help, Smith continues with his games and when his dad asks what happened he could not tell him exactly what happened. Smith told his dad, he does not remember if he sees mother falling down because all he could see that he is losing the game and he has to get more cars in the race. After that Smith’...
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...the metaphysical, 1999 Time person of the century Albert Einstein once stated, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Einstein’s chief contention here is that reality is merely a function of the conscious mind’s attempt to make sense of the environment. Since the conscious is concerned with its ultimate survival, humans often view material objects as the full composition of true reality. In The Thirteenth Floor, director Josef Rusnak muddies the water of what is real and virtual through his story of new technology that allows for a safe and successful transference of consciousness from one being to an artificial being known as a “unit.” Stemming from this idea that the conscious is independent from the physical realm, many questions remain unanswered concerning the plausibility of such technology. Furthermore, if this virtual reality technology was put in use, could the computerized units possess a conscious mind of their own, which is free of significant mental impairment? Holistically, Rusnak’s film challenges the basic principles on which physicalism was built by arguing that reality is a creation of the conscious mind, and therefore reality does possess many non-physical components. Mankind’s perception of reality is limited in scope to that which is visible and present around us. The same holds true when applied individually, since a person’s understanding of reality is a function of what the environment suggests is plausible. Perhaps literature’s...
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...A Constructivist Pedagogy For Career And Technology Education In this article, I explored tenets of constructivism that could be directly applied to the Career and Technology Education Standards for Career and Technology Education Teachers. This article provides a proposed constructivist pedagogy for the Vocational Technology studies. Though I do not consider myself to be a strict- constructivist teacher, when I compared my educational philosophy to this proposed pedagogy, I realized how much the study of constructivist theory and practice had influenced my beliefs and methods of instruction. As a future Technology Education educator, I applied these constructivist principles to my own teaching style and methods. A Constructivist Pedagogy for Career and Technology Education The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium states: “career studies should be taught in manners that are consistent with a constructivist view of learning” (NASDCTEC, 1999, p. 7). While this may sound good in theory, one underlying problem exists: the lack of a clearly defined, agreed-upon constructivist pedagogy. This article will (1) explore the definition and variations of constructivist theory, (2) present a pedagogy for constructivist teachers of career and technology studies, and (3) compare and relate those pedagogies to the existing standards for powerful career and technology studies as defined by the NASDCTEC. “Constructivism is a topic...
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...Is Virtual Urbanism a Boon or Hindrance? In the real world, today every second person visualizes the future of cities to be technologically advanced and accomplished. Visualize the world to transform into a place without any difficulties, a place that is superior in every aspect, mainly with the aim of solving every new problem, which the people living in it come across. It is difficult to imagine such a place, but what if this fantasy turns out to become a reality? Further down this paper will look in the possibilities of such kind of a virtual world, and will also discuss the effects that will most likely take place after or during this change. From the time of evolution of human to the present day, every bit of change in the living has been based on an information highway. The information highway as it is called by Robins. K (1999) is a term used for the technological developments of the cities through every period. We humans are social creatures and our social and personal life depends upon different types of cultures and traditions, creating various communities causing urbanization. Currently the urban world has reached such heights of development in technology due to the information acquired because of the information highway, that the people living in it are easily getting used to the techno world and are adapting the cyber culture. Thus in the text ‘Foreclosing on the City’, (Robins, K. 1999) identifies this term as ‘virtual urbanism’. Thus, according to Bell, D (2000)...
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...Research on Parapsychology and its impact on New Age Describe and evaluate a major scientific breakthrough of the past 10 years, discussing the challenges faced in developing it. Introduction Many events, phenomenon and concepts such as existence of alien and soul, channeling and telepathy, which are unexplainable, are considered to be supernatural origin. For that origin, parapsychology, which is a scientific study of paranormal behaviors and experiences, may provide the answer for us. Apart from that, new age movement, which is important for our future and started from the 1960s, is a spiritual development and relative to paranormality. Furthermore, the main concepts of new age are “We are all in one” and “our consciousnesses create our own realities”. In fact, parapsychology, which can be proven by quantum physics, makes the concept of new age more complete and persuadable. Thus, quantum physics and parapsychology, which have a strong relationship between them, make a great impact on new age. Nevertheless, the challenges are many people may think that paranormal phenomenon and these concepts are frauds and ridiculous. We will recognize these are possible and really amazing when we investigate more. This essay investigates what is parapsychology, evaluates the impact on new age and discusses the challenges faced. Background There are two main directions in parapsychology, which are Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. In the past, there were many famous scientists...
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...structure of scientific revolution (1962) -he was interested in two things. He redefined the word “paradigm” to use in science -These paradigms I take to be universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners. -Provide models (in law, theory, instrumentation, application) from which spring particular coherent traditions of scientific research. -Ex. Copernician revolution, Newtonian dynamic (new version of the world-the change of paradigm ) -Ex. Theory of light -today (in the 1960): light is photon. Ie. Quantum-mechanical entities( Planck Einstein) -In the 19th century, light was transverse wave motion (young and Fresnel ) -during the 18th century, light was material corpuscles (Newton) -in each case, research proceed accordingly -Understanding assumptions -Ontological: what reality is -Epistemological: how to access to knowledge, how knowledge is defined -Define valid knowledge at a time- it is always link on social conventions. Knowledge is never pure knowledge. It is link to the time of what is the social context. -upon which, research problems and analysis are designed (the questions that we asked are always link to the two term) -accepted view of science, of scientific knowledge at a time and scientific methods -Competing paradigms -competing visions at any...
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...technology on our lives and society. The development and improvement of new technology are continuously to change and improve our lives and some areas of industries in various ways such as education, communication and entertainment. In this paper I explore three types of advanced Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Tele-immersion technologies compare some distinguish characteristics between them as well as some of the ramification of these technologies on current and future life. Virtual Reality This topic was a sub-topic discussed in week 5 of the ISYS100 course which briefly introduced what Virtual Reality is about and how people perceive this new trend and concepts of inventing and sharing a virtual space in the future. The term of "virtual reality" is described as new interactive software programs which allow the user to immerse into a 3D surreal environment that is generated by a computer. The sight and sound from the three-dimensional monitor stimulates senses of reality; even the users are able to feel and touch the objects (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2006). The ultimate immersed experience is when the users are allowed to move around, touch things, and talk in this virtual environment. Virtual Reality (VR) −Virtual −Interactive −Immersive Familiarity with Virtual Reality Most ordinary people may consider themselves to be acquainted with virtual reality experience through television and movies such as Star Trek: The Next Generation,...
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...Experience Machine Objection Utilitarianism is a normative moral theory, which suggests that actions are seen as right if they tend to produce happiness to the majority and wrong if they tend to be wrong if they produce unhappiness. This theory can take on the form of act utilitarianism although in this essay, I will be focusing solely on hedonistic utilitarianism as well as an objection to this theory, the experience machine objection. Robert Nozick introduced this objection. Following an explanation of both hedonistic utilitarianism and the experience machine objection I will be critically evaluating the objection. I am going to argue that the experience machine objection is valid against hedonistic utilitarianism because there are people who would not plug into the machine. There are some people who prefer to physically do things not just experience them, don’t want to be limited to a man-made reality and want to make a difference in the world. Two key contributors to the normative moral theory of utilitarianism are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism specifies what makes an action morally correct or incorrect. The theory suggests, “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and wrong, as they tend to produce the opposite of happiness.” (Mill 454) It is a type of consequentialism as even though the act itself may be morally wrong, if it produces the best consequences it is seen as a morally right action. For example, killing one healthy...
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...ASSIGNMENT SBIT4002 GROUP 1 WORD COUNT: 1,428 AUGMENTED REALITY TOPIC: A REPORT COMPILED BY OLUKAYODE OLAWALE ARIYO STUDENT ID: 113442-84 AUGUST 2011 Contents INTRODUCTION 2 DEFINITION OF AUGMENTED REALITY 2 HISTORY OF AUGMENTED REALITY 2 APPLICATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY 3 GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT 3 EDUCATION 3 MUSEUMS 3 SECURITY AND DEFENCE 3 MEDICINE 4 BUSINESS 4 TECHNOLOGY BEHIND AUGMENTED REALITY 5 HARDWARE 5 HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS 5 TRACKERS 5 HAPTICS 5 SOFTWARE: 5 ADVANTAGES OF AUGMENTED REALITY 6 DISADVANTAGES OF AUGMENTED REALITY 6 ETHICAL ISSUES 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 8 INTRODUCTION There was an interesting news at www.bbc.co.uk, on 25th June, 2010 it was titled “The promise of augmented reality: Gaga in a living room”, the news reported a company who developed and demonstrated an augmented reality system which generate a virtual image in 3D mapped onto a wall paper, with the use of a device with camera, (Hudson, 2011). Although augmented reality have been in existence in a similar form called Virtual reality, but it has taken a step forward, (Maad, 2008). As a consequence of the relevance of digital and media technology, there is an increase request for the development of new application which is capable of harnessing the power of augmented reality, in meeting the needs of various industries. DEFINITION OF AUGMENTED REALITY Augmented Reality can be described as the process of overlaying computer generated...
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...Entrepreneur Myths There are many misconceptions about who entrepreneurs are and how they function. Jeffrey Timmons, author of New Venture Creation, cites the following fifteen myths and the reality behind them: Myth 1: Entrepreneurs are born, not made. Reality: While entrepreneurs are born with certain native intelligence, a flair for creativity, and energy, these talents by themselves are like unmolded clay or an unpainted canvas. The making of an entrepreneur occurs by accumulating the relevant skills, knowledge, experiences, and contacts over a period of years. It includes large doses of self-development. The creative capacity to envision and pursue an opportunity is a direct descendant of at least ten or more years of experience. Myth 2: Anyone can start a business. Reality: Entrepreneurs who recognize the difference between an idea and an opportunity, and who can visualize potential, start businesses that have a better chance of succeeding. Luck, if involved, requires good preparation. Starting the business is often the easiest part. Surviving, sustaining, and building a venture so its founders can realize the reward is often the hardest part. Perhaps only 5% to 10% of all new businesses that survive five or more years produce an eventual capital gain for the founders. Myth 3: Entrepreneurs are gamblers. Reality: Successful entrepreneurs take carefully calculated risks. They try to influence the odds, often by getting others to share risk with them and by avoiding...
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...that affect her and her team’s ability to meet the expectations of its regional manager. While it would be easy to blame the new manager, a closer look at the reality shows that many forces are at work here, in addition to her lack of experience, including communication strategies and goals, wrong team members, cultural conflicts and a lack of leadership management and / or the ability to from the top of her head. “Hide This case describes a newly promoted middle manager in a global, multi-cultural organization that has challenged a number of factors at work that affect her and her team’s ability to meet the expectations of its regional manager. While it would be easy to blame the new manager, a closer look at the reality shows that many forces are at work here, in addition to her lack of experience, including communication strategies and goals, wrong team members, cultural conflicts and a lack of leadership management and / or the ability to from the top of her head. “Hide This case describes a newly promoted middle manager in a global, multi-cultural organization that has challenged a number of factors at work that affect her and her team’s ability to meet the expectations of its regional manager. While it would be easy to blame the new manager, a closer look at the reality shows that many forces are at work here, in addition to her lack of experience, including communication strategies and goals, wrong team members, cultural conflicts and a lack of leadership management and...
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