What are the advantages and disadvantages of Virtual Reality?

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Ricardo Pacheco IBS

ITGS Portfolio 1

26/12/01

St. Julians School

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Virtual Reality?

Criterion A: Describing the Issue

Douglas Adams concluded in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that "There are those who think that VR may be the most important development since man first chipped flint, and there are those who don't know what it is yet".(2)

We can say that VR is one of the most topics talked and discussed in our early days. First, we can call it a form of technology and there are many ways we can use it. New uses are constantly being found for VR. There are main impacts that we can refer to such as in interactive entertainment, advanced car simulators, systems that let doctors practice "Virtual Surgery" and also in architecture and education. Various types of interface devices allow us to have the illusory experiences of seeing, touching, picking up, and even manipulating Virtual Objects. These devices transmit the sight, sounds, and feel of simulated worlds to the user. (1)

At the stage of social context there are a lot of positive impacts, but nevertheless there are