Final Reflection - Second Skin Is reality only a figment of one’s imagination, and what is reality exactly? Second Skin is a 2008 American documentary that follows the lives of seven people as they investigate the controversial, virtual worlds of MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). The documentary was written by Victor Piñeiro-Escoriaza, directed by Juan Carlos Piñeiro-Escoriaza, and published by Pure West Films. In these online games, the lives of the gamers are…
The year is 2045. The world is overpopulated, unemployed, short of energy and basically falling apart. The only thing that keeps the world going is a simulation game called OASIS, a virtual reality simulation game created by James Halliday. Ready Player One is a book by Ernest Cline which falls in the genre of Sci-Fi and dystopian. The book starts out introducing Wade Owen Watts, the main character. Wade is 18 years old and wants to find the Easter Egg in OASIS, which Halliday left behind as…
works by creating a world that people can easily adjust to. In this essay, I argue that the virtual world lowers your expectations of the real world, that using technology connects and isolates people, and that technology creates artificial outcomes that cannot tell someone how a situation will turn out. A person’s concept of reality can be easily altered by how much time he or she spends in the virtual world and how it allows you…
The creation of the internet and social media has permanently changed how people interact with one another. Millions of people log on to the internet daily for the purpose of interaction. Additionally, according to Nils Smith, social media is the most popular activity on the internet. This twenty-first century phenomenon is a great opportunity for churches to capitalize on this innovative technology using it as a ministry tool for evangelism. Thousands of people use social media daily, but…
Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ presents the theory that every individual goes through a ‘cave’ in life, and eventually becomes enlightened. In the cave described by Plato, prisoners are powerless and chained to the wall. The prisoners are missing out on all the things happening behind them, like the fire and the puppets. What they can see and hear are shadows and echoes. When the prisoners tried to get out of the cave, they couldn’t face the real world; they had mistaken appearance for reality.…
Virtual Reality Changing Technology In the 21st century, man has devised a new technological advance in technology. This has revolutionized the way people will look at the world for the better. Virtual Reality… The most technologically advanced product that man has been able to create. Developed originally in the 1960s, the world has been working towards this for tech for many years. With failure after failure, no one has been able to come up with a way for Virtual Reality to become a true…
Carolyn Gregoire states in the article “Why are millions of people spending so much time watching others play video games?” that people cannot experience 100% of social activities in real life through internet media. Online media also decrease people’s social ability in real life. In the news, Gregoire shows that most American adult spend almost a half day to watch other players play video games on Twitch.tv. Those audience and players have their own community in Twitch.tv where they can chat…
In the graphic novel, the Pride of Baghdad, animals were used to represent different types of Iraqis people. These animals were identified based on how they were depicted by Brain K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon. The author and illustrator of this novel used dark aggressive colors and tones to lead the audience towards a negative vibe in a character by how they formatted, styled, and characterized the characters in the pages of the novel. The page used to support this statement is the page of the…
Deep, dark secrets are not an aspect of life that came to age with 21st century technology. However, through the modern medium of the World Wide Web, there has been a new cultural phenomenon called “PostSecret,” which provides people a window to anonymously share their secrets. This phenomenon began in 2005 when Frank Warren initiated an art project that welcomed people to anonymously mail him their secrets on postcards. Since 2005, on every Sunday Warren has released new batches of secrets so…
Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science and Virtual Reality creation at CMU, creatively delivers his speech titled, “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” He speaks to the audience in a very informal manner, making himself more approachable and easy to listen to. He introduces his three main speech topics in the beginning, His Childhood Dreams, Enabling the Dreams of Others, and Lessons Learned. His first main point, His Childhood Dreams, is one where he looks back…