Virtual community

An exploration of the surrounding cultural impact from interactive public installations, based on the piece of Open Air by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Yuan Yuan Zhang Introduction:More and more digital and interactive art installations have been accommodated by various museums and venues recently. In the past, people usually appreciated static public installations and architecture, but now they…

Mid-Term Exam 1) Tom and Jerry are two friends with 10 and 2 toys each. If more friends come to visit Jerry, he may have to buy more toys, while Tom is not using his toys. So, Children keep all their toys in one big box and use them. This common big box is cloud computing. 2) I believe that “Maintenance Costs will be lower with cloud computing”. While moving from a private network to a cloud based network, the initial setup costs will be high. The cost required for setting up IT can never be…

In a world filled with online connections and virtual realities, it seems like the populace would enjoy the privilege of getting to present oneself in their own way, to craft their identities and shape people’s perception of them. As appealing as that proposition sounds, research is beginning to show another reality, one much darker and more pervasive is realized. Social media has been raised on a pedestal of glory, being flaunted as a way to connect with the world, to interact with more people…

In the fascinating novel Ready Player One, Cline displays an ugly world that relies on an virtual reality game, OASIS. Wade Watts, the protagonist, is an ordinary kid who later in the story becomes a multi-billionaire because of his success in the LIU-2 Halliday’s Easter Egg hunt. In the very beginning of the book Wade explains, A new subculture was born, composed of the millions of people now devoted every free moment of their lives to searching for Halliday’s egg. At first, these individuals…

This article is about two people, Sarah Jeong and Kirsten Race explaining their own opinions about Pokemon Go. If Pokemon Go is a positive cultural force or if it’s an excuse for people to stare at their phone. During the summer of 2016, there’s a new game app called “ Pokemon Go”. Many people say that “Pokemon Go” is a bad game for people to play because they think kids playing the game could get kidnapped, if they’re paying too much attention on their phones. People can also risk their lives…

Unless you’ve been living under a Graveler for the past month, the hottest new app craze across the world is Pokemon GO! An augmented reality game that places users in the hotseat as an aspiring trainer, tasked with the age-old mission of “catching ‘em all”. The biggest change in this game from entries in the traditional Pokemon series is that trainers have to venture out into the real world and use the augmented reality software and gps on their smartphones in order to find pokemon in the real…

Virtual Reality in Dementia For nearly a decade, virtual reality has been used in video games and military training to create an element of realism and a true environmental reaction. As the world continually becomes interconnected through technology the use of virtual reality will no doubt increase. Extra Sensory Perception, an article from Scientific American, explores how the vast network of sensors currently housed in current technology could be eventually be used as sensory prosthetics via…

themselves and manage their relationships (2011). Throughout my interaction with the IMVU community, I found that numerous people using online communities to build relationships were looking for a way out of their past imperfect ones. They loved being able to communicate when they felt like it and return to the real world where the relationship no longer affected them. This gave people the ability to live in a perfect virtual world with perfect relationships. Per Turkle the ability manages…

cooperation for mutual benefit” (65-78). The amount of social capital is not at the same level as it was in the past. This is due to a change in the amount of civic engagement throughout communities. In most areas and organizations today, either a higher degree or a lower degree of civic engagement is observed. In my community, a lower amount of civic engagement is evident in children’s involvement in youth-related activities and adult involvement in youth-related activities when compared to the…

It allows the associates who partake in Depot Day, to take pride in the fact that they are assisting in their local community and making a difference. The service’s provided by Office Depot allows the customer sound technological advice rather than a sales pitch. Many times just taking the time to sit and explain how some of the new technology features work, allows the…