Think about all the work you did in college. Unless you’re a recent college graduate, how much of it was saved and archived in a way that you can access now? What about the skills you acquired in various jobs? Digital learning environments can save and organize almost everything. Here, in the “unlabeled” folder, are all of my notes, tests, homework, syllabus and grades from the edX genetics course. My “real” college courses, by contrast, are lost to history, with only an inscrutable abbreviation on a paper transcript suggesting that they ever happened at all.
Paul Papadopoulos on 04 Feb 23The definition of virtual reality technology comes from both the words 'virtual' and 'reality'. The definition of virtual is 'near' and the definition of reality is whatever we experience as human beings. So basically the term means 'near-reality'. Our sense and perception systems help us see the world as it is and everything we know about reality comes by way of our senses. In other words, you could say that simply a combination of sensory information makes up our entire experience of reality. You can change your perception of reality by presenting made-up information to your senses. By doing so you will create a version of reality that isn't there but from your perspective it is and this concept is called 'virtual reality'.
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