Virtual reality

Fourth Quality Comment, Comment 24

In lastest decades, technology has improved a lot, and has created things like virtual reality. And, what is actually virtual reality?. Virtual reality, usually abreviate as VR, consists of the creation of stimulated enviroments, and they are a three dimensional experience, so you interact with a 3D world, not only with a screen as we usually do. One of the most important people in this field is Palmer Luckey, who is the creator of the Occulus, one type of virtual reality's glasses.

Virtual reality is usually used in videogames, creating videogames where you can interact with almost all  the things that are in that 3D world. But recently,it has been discovered that virtual reality can also be used to solve some illnesses, such as anxiety or other problems, like fears or phobias. For this reason, it can be used like a medical device, to treat, for example, fear of height. Because if you put your headset, the virtual reality glasses, and you move higher and higher of the floor, you may lose your fear of heigh.

And this tecnology can make you think like Palmer Luckey's thought. He set out videogames, in which if you die, you will also die in the real world. He defends his idea saying that there are also some sports and activities, like car racing where you can get killed doing it, so he wants to include videogames. That is not the first time that we can hear this, we have already seen some films or series that make reference to this topic, like Matrix or Sword Art Online.

As a conclusion, summing up virtual reality is something really good and useful, but you need to know what you are doing, because if you spend a lot of time in a virtual world you won't do all you must do in your real life. Besides, I think that the idea of dying playing a videogame is absurd, you usually play a videogame to entertaint yourself and spend a good time, not to die.