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The Reality of Virtual Reality Presented by Nicole Miller
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For Mass Communication and Technology class. A Basic overview of virtual reality and virtual worlds.
Transcript of Virtual Reality
The Reality of Virtual Reality
Presented by Nicole Miller
What is Virtual Reality? What are Virtual Worlds?
Virtual Reality
Virtual Worlds
Some definitions to get started…
A virtual community
Second Life
An avatar
A few more definitions…
MUD
Presence
Presence in Virtual Reality
Thoughts…. Media that is meant to feel
unmediated, why?
•Two Ways Non-mediation effect can occur
1. Become invisible2. Transform
But how does it work?
The willingness to suspend disbelief is part of human nature
How Presence has evolved
Concepts:“You are there” “It is here”
“We are together”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVJqSlVMgw
Social Realism v. Perceptual Realism
High visual quality and perceptual realism
High intimacy and social realism
“Photorealistic” + low intimacy = perceptual realism
High intimacy + low visual quality = social realism
Today’s goal…High intimacy + “Photorealistic”
Perceptual and Psychological Immersion
All technologies are extensions of us –McLuhan
Social actors within mediums Mediums as social actors Not to harp on McLuhan but… “The
medium is the message.”
Timeline 1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Now
Future?
The Appeal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THM16t5Cm_4
Fulfilling Needs
Engaging physical sensations: vection- excitement, fear, relaxation
Engaging emotional needs: gaining acceptance, filling voids, fulfilling fantasies, overcoming fears/anxieties
Achieving desired identity, forming self A learning environment
Social Effects
Exploration
The Proteus Effect
Persistence of Nonverbal behavior in VWs
Some important VR researchers/philosophers
Morton Heilig
Myron Krueger
Jaron Lanier
Put in the context of Mass Communication and Technology
What is the durable mutation?
References
http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/6/1041
http://www.sg.uu.nl/prog/2009a/doc/Geloof%20je%20ogen%20niet_Leestip_Bottomore.pdf
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cpb.2006.9984
http://2jabaste.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/hypermedia-what-are-we-talking-about/
http://www.jaronlanier.com/general.html http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.10
89%2F109493102321018169 http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/a
bstract/135/7/786 http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/36/2/28
5 http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2008/
09/theory_and_research_in_hci_mor/ http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publication
s/r-98-11/node17.html
