Lecture 5 the concept of virtual philosophy

Lecture 5 discusses the concept of virtual philosophy. To understand the concept it uses very popular example of “Matrix”, which presented concept of future where machines dominate humans by keeping them ignorant of reality by creating virtual world. Major critique of Virtual rationality is that it keeps human away from real feeling and imaginations, people engaged in virtual world loose their sense of reality and how the real nature and world feels like. Then it talks about evolution of virtual reality from traditional technology of telegraph to modern era. Elements of virtual language use combination of sound, music and visuals to create new way to communicate.

Virtual reality is a computer-stimulated environment that enables users to interact, move and react in this stimulated environment. It provides privilege of experiencing things, which are physically difficult to experience. To deliver this experience it requires help of various hardware such as goggles, headphones, gloves and body suite to create stimulus world, which feels like real world. It involves use of various senses such as vision, sound, touch and taste and smell to create feeling of real world which is virtual. This all seems very exciting but it has its own consequences such as physiological and psychological issues. VR still has long way to go to create real life sensation in human being.