Wil Harris
Dec 07, 2021
CMNS-150
Virtual Reality is a very unique experience. While I personally haven't been able to see a lot of it with my own eyes I've watched playthroughs and videos about many VR games and spaces out today like VRChat, VR Minecraft, Etc. Augmented reality has a lot of cool potentials, touching on the amazing Guest Speaker that came in to speak to us a few days ago now was super cool! Seeing all the art projects and amazing visuals was stunning. I look forward to seeing future projects involving these ideas.
Extended Reality seems to be the final evolution of VR. And there is a lot of cool things people could use this idea for. Construction workers could preview the build, use extended reality to lay out a plan in 3D or an engineering field where engineers can test and use XR to simulate tests.
Even in entertainment, there are a lot more possibilities, you could become a protagonist of an XR movie, I'm thinking about how horror movies are gonna become that much scarier with you having to run away. Even in everyday life, you'd be able to have a HUD like in video games, getting around town would be easier with a small map in the corner.
With all this potential this also opens up more opportunities for tracking, ads, and a lot more surveillance of the population. Like in the video we watched in class; where the person on the bus heavily relied on the glasses to do work for them. the Credit system and all the ads spread about on housing and stuff. This XR stuff could easily take that route if the developers or company isn't careful.
I'm hoping we have a fun idea to work with, something that'll hopefully remain more novel and less intrusive in our day-to-day lives. As fun as those devices would be, I wouldn't want it to become the next phone. Where we keep it on us at all times and rely on it for a lot. I'd just like to see the world for how it is and enjoy the fun sparkly art every now and then.
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