Really unreal or unreally real?
Victoria Kean
Marketing Director at Orbital10 Ltd. Helping businesses elevate operations and processes for growth and productivity, as well as navigate the ever-changing digital landscape and cybersecurity challenges.
So you could be whatever you want wherever you want - who would you be and where?
Welcome to virtual reality, making our physical movements generate alternate realities through computer hardware and software technologies, that overcome space constraints to open up endless worlds of possibilities.
From gaming to education to pioneering medical breakthroughs, virtual reality is an evolving catalyst of wonder and opportunity, but are still we guinea pigs in unknown worlds? With warnings of isolation, addiction and sickness, does virtual reality carry risks?
The risks don't seem to concern the money men with Virtual Reality set to break the ￡38 billion sales mark in 2020. Furthermore, medics, engineers and inventors are all embracing virtual reality as a means to solve major issues in their fields.
But for us on the real or virtual ground, this is about testing and challenging and intriguing our senses. We are a way off complete five-sense virtual reality, but it's not out of the realms of reality...
Article written by Victoria Reece-Heal, Director of PC Logix IT Services in Herefordshre: www.pclogix.co.uk
Source: https://discovermagazine.com/2017/jul-aug/virtual-reality