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Halo) sets off a small trigger and informs its user the authorities will be alerted if any damage or pain were to be inflicted upon her. Yes, that is a slippery slope but if that type of technology were available to keep your loved ones safe would you try to get everyone on board with it?

Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment. On a computer, virtual reality is primarily experienced through two of the five senses: sight and sound.

It's current use, apart from the gaming part and the experience someone receives is also at science (scientific visualization), education, art work but also to the ability given to people to handle virtual objects.

I wonder what future is there to bring and how this technology of Virtual Reality will really influence the real life of people. Is not that far to see, just some steps away ... !!!

hundreds or thousands of years or create the sounds, smells, and tastes of prehistory, but they give a much richer experience than a few pastel drawings or even an animated movie.

The big problem with all that, including the Google Glass, is that so few of us can definitively speak on the experience because so few of us have had ample time to become adjusted to them. Testers, devs, probably even executives and fellow inner circle members may have time to fiddle around with these toys but most of us have not. Which means it’s hard to give an objective opinion, especially for such a controversial product that can affect people differently. What we should ask is this: Are we ready to play Alice and go down that rabbit hole? Are we prepared for developers who will stop working on tgh

the next level based achievement app that becomes the subject of every choreographed dance on Twitter and instead ways to see other people’s heart rates, in real time? And statistics and algorithms being used to direct you through the safest route home?

And all being able to see each other's backgrounds in the blink of an eye? Will it do more harm than good? How can we gauge that? We have to choose to make the transition as a whole or not at all. I'm confident this won't be the last I mention this so I'd like to leave you with an example and just sympathize, or empathize. A young woman is walking down a suspicious avenue at a very late hour.

Brendan concludes: Approaching from behind, about 10 meters away, and your discreet, mounted heads up display (think Halo)