Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

Although virtual worlds are having its biggest advancements in the gaming world, it is also improving efficiency and production in other fields as well. Some of the these where VR is being implemented are health care, education, museums and the automotive world. Learning through virtual reality has gone a far way, employers are now expecting workers to come into the field already knowing how to learn online (Posey). With the internet being such a resource, many opportunities are offered in various way that appeal to students and their learning styles. One of the biggest advantages of VR in the education world, is that it is increasing organization for the students along with the instructor of the course. The instructors` are able to efficiently update content for all students and have it accessible for anyone at their convenient timing. Along with organization, VR also complements education breaking a social barrier that is sometimes present in the physical classroom (Bakshy). Technology has increased group cohesion and mutual support. VR has many advantages to education, but it also comes with it disadvantages. One the most important is that there is no pace to the lecture. In a traditional setting a professor might adjust the pace at which they are teaching and even skip topics when they see that different classmates are not comprehending all material. This also leads to less contact and connection between students groups and teachers.

One of the most impressive points of VR is that it opens a world of creativity that is unbelievable. For example, in the auto world, VR allows you to build different models to adjust on a prototype before building a defective model. The biggest bonus of the virtual world is that it brings efficiency to all areas of It application, along with opening a creative and interesting world. The bad part about this is that although it come with all of these benefits to all individuals, not everyone can afford it. Those who are not able to afford these technologies will be left out. In the future as more companies see their competitor moving towards VR, they will also make the same move so that their competition will not get too far ahead of them in a business world. For educators, as more students are able to afford this virtual technology, they will move to the virtual world because the efficiency of learning they now have access to.

 

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Posey, Guy. “The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Virtual Classroom and the Role of the Teacher.” VIrtual Classroom, docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiYXJ1Y2huZXdtZWRpYXxneDo2ZTg5MGFiMmRkMzA4NjZm.