Virtual Living

evawhite on August 8th, 2008

Virtual Reality, brought by recent game titles have been making themselves more and more relevant than being written off as play for the anti-social. That includes myself, when World of Warcraft, Second Life were making news I barely bothered to read them. To me it was bunch of highly introvert people chaining themselves to their computers and making out online impressions of ‘cool’ they couldn’t bother to be in real life.

Not entirely untrue. Fact is, anyone can be whatever and however they want if they willed it. Instead of making the effort to move about much people confined themselves to them and their computers to create a dashing and hopeful entity online. It worked, gave them some contentment and satisfaction to lead in virtual at least a life they wanted.

Things have gone beyond that now. The online life is coming closer to reality and even replacing life-events in some cases. From people living fantasy lives now multi-national companies conducting conferences online. Some companies have mapped out their entire campus online so people can wander about and explore their decision to work in that company. A conference-room like environment can be created and the employees can log in all over the work into the room and have a real-life-like conference with people’s movement and visuals.

You’ll have to admit it saves the company a good amount of money, flying their employees to and from conferences, accommodation and the rest. As this technology progresses people could be travelling a lot lesser. At this point one also needs to think about the implications of this new medium. I’ll put it quite simple. Where people can they will. People with criminal intention in real life would sure like to expand their tentacles into the online world, more business quite simply. Or even the other way, budding illegal thinkers have a world new arena to make a start. As time goes I will look more in detail at this virtual living and share it with you all.

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