Its 2:00 AM and i should probably be doing college work or sleeping but recently I've seen a lot about VR (virtual reality) headsets and its interested me so much that I thought I would create a lovely post for all of you to read and discuss, I've even put some research into this. (googling haha)
Some of these headsets that i have seen are the oculus rift, the Gear VR (which is "powered" by the oculus") and also the playstation VR. Now this is very cool in "gaming" terms as it will allow players to experience alternative worlds and in depth story's like never before but i like to think more about the other possibilities that VR headsets such as these will allow.
One example is in medicine, with this technology it is allowing medical students to practice performing operations before they do anything to a real person (which i have to admit, i think it would make me more confident in doctors that will be performing operations on me) And there are other things that VR can be used for in medicine here. One thing that i think VR could be useful for is training astronauts for what it will look like in space and in/out of the space station.
A surprising thing that i found out from researching more about VR is that there is also a rather obscure use for it. it doesn't appeal to me but there's even adult content that can be downloaded and viewed through these VR headsets and i think for some people this will be a very popular feature haha. One bad thing about VR i think is that with the ability to view things such as this it will increase the amount of people that go out and do certain bad things to people as, if they can live out a fantasy where they do that in VR and believe they're are doing it then i think they will be more likely to actually go out and do it.
Anyway, what do you people think about the advancement of VR? what benefits will there be? what disadvantage will there be?
Some of these headsets that i have seen are the oculus rift, the Gear VR (which is "powered" by the oculus") and also the playstation VR. Now this is very cool in "gaming" terms as it will allow players to experience alternative worlds and in depth story's like never before but i like to think more about the other possibilities that VR headsets such as these will allow.
One example is in medicine, with this technology it is allowing medical students to practice performing operations before they do anything to a real person (which i have to admit, i think it would make me more confident in doctors that will be performing operations on me) And there are other things that VR can be used for in medicine here. One thing that i think VR could be useful for is training astronauts for what it will look like in space and in/out of the space station.
A surprising thing that i found out from researching more about VR is that there is also a rather obscure use for it. it doesn't appeal to me but there's even adult content that can be downloaded and viewed through these VR headsets and i think for some people this will be a very popular feature haha. One bad thing about VR i think is that with the ability to view things such as this it will increase the amount of people that go out and do certain bad things to people as, if they can live out a fantasy where they do that in VR and believe they're are doing it then i think they will be more likely to actually go out and do it.
Anyway, what do you people think about the advancement of VR? what benefits will there be? what disadvantage will there be?