How Can Virtual Reality Be Used to Our Advantage?
As virtual reality is becoming more prevalent with advancements in technology, it is important to explore how these changes will affect reality. Though virtual reality separates itself from the real world, the advantages that VR applications offer can still enhance the experience of reality. The primary types of virtual reality applications are those for entertainment or education. In other words, virtual reality devices can offer experiences that can either provide knowledge or enjoyment, depending on the desires of the user and what device he/she chooses. The business world may use VR technology for education, while the private world utilizes it for entertainment. In terms of finding success from this technology, people can take advantage of both the education and entertainment aspects.
One of the significant ways virtual reality and its advanced technology can enhance human capacity is through job simulators. Honing your skills as a surgeon was at one time very difficult, because the only way to ever authentically practise those skills are when using them on an actual person. In other words, there was no safe space to improve skills without the stakes being extremely high. VR technology allows this to be possible, as it can simulate the experience of brain surgery for practice without the life or death stakes of a real surgery. Through surgery simulations with VR headsets and the oculus rift, virtual reality is able to build and improve muscle memory, and train surgeons to be better prepared to deal with high pressure situations. This can similarly be done with military training. VR software that replicates war (such as Sony’s PlayStation VR headsets) can be used as means of training soldiers to work together in a safe environment before dealing with these situations in reality. Other VR devices such as flight simulators accomplish the same goal for pilots.
Virtual reality is also extremely helpful to businesses, because of the ability of VR systems to stay up to date and constantly take in new information immediately. For example, video game software has a profile of the owner on record, which can lead to businesses targeting their interests and personalizing the ads that are sent to them. This increases the chances of potential customers converting to that product or company. Virtual stores are also far more efficient than physical stores, since products, sales and ads can be updated in real time. Virtual reality technologies can even create events like concerts, simulated through popular software such as the online game Minecraft.
