Experiencing Virtual Reality

Welcome to your very own virtual reality tour! You will now be entered into a different world. Time to put on your glasses... Are you ready?

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Figure 2: A.I. X249

Welcome to the CAVE virtual reality system. I am artificial intelligence serial number X249 as seen in Figure 2 and I will be taking you on your own virtual reality tour. Artificial Intelligence, well just call me A.I. for short, means I am a computer system that can do human things (2). Boring... you just want to be on your tour, right? Let's get started. First stop on our trip will be to The Jurassic Period or better known as the Dinosaur Age!

Figure 3: T-Rex

The Dinosaurs were a group of animals living 135 million years ago as seen in Figure 3, before any human was ever on Earth. Thanks to our virtual reality glasses we are allowed to go anywhere we want at any time. No this is not time travel at all. What is actually happening here is you are in a fake world where anything can be created and this is happening because of computer programming. Computers have created this world of dinosaurs we are in now through computer code. The computer code is the make up of computers which allow them to do new and cool things (1). If you were playing any type of video game, that game was created from computer code. The dinosaur computer code was made by a computer and put into our glasses so we can be in dinosaur times like we are now! The Dinosaur code makes our glasses and us see and experience the world of dinosaurs. Our glasses send and receive information that is put into the virtual reality system. It's as close to real as real will ever get. The dinosaur trip is coming to an end and A.I. X249 would like to take you next into the Super Mario video game.

Ever wonder how it would be to rescue The Princess from Bowser and have YOU be the hero? Now that we are in the world of Super Mario we can actually do that. So, you understand that we can go to the past because at one point in time that was real, but how do we make a fake video game real life for us? With out virtual reality systems not only can we create things that happened in the past or may happen in the future, we can also create things from our imagination to become real life for us. 

Now that our time has come to an end for our tour, have you ever thought about creating and advancing virtual reality for yourself? To do so, take interest in a lot of math, science and computer courses. As we saw here today computers play a HUGE role in virtual reality. If you choose to go to college then you will start to prepare a background for a job in virtual reality technology. Not many schools offer virtual reality as a degree but like we said earlier about the importance of computers, you can reach out and strive for a Computer Science degree which will set you on the right track for a job. I hope you had a fun time on the tour and you may now remove your glasses.

References

1. Little, S. (2009). Virtual Reality. In Virtual Reality. Retrieved from http://www.vrs.org.uk/
2. Yuan Jiugen, Y., & Li, Z. (2014). Application and composition of virtual reality in teaching. Applied Mechanics & Materials, (644-650), 5594-5597.