virtual reality
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For Mass Communication and Technology class. A Basic overview of virtual reality and virtual worlds.TRANSCRIPT
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The Reality of Virtual Reality
Presented by Nicole Miller
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What is Virtual Reality? What are Virtual Worlds?
Virtual Reality
Virtual Worlds
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Some definitions to get started…
A virtual community
Second Life
An avatar
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A few more definitions…
MUD
Presence
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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
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How Presence has evolved
Concepts:“You are there” “It is here”
“We are together”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVJqSlVMgw
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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”
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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.”
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Timeline 1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Now
Future?
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The Appeal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THM16t5Cm_4
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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
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Social Effects
Exploration
The Proteus Effect
Persistence of Nonverbal behavior in VWs
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Some important VR researchers/philosophers
Morton Heilig
Myron Krueger
Jaron Lanier
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Put in the context of Mass Communication and Technology
What is the durable mutation?
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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