Virtual management

Perfect Day 7:30 A.M. I wake up in my king size bed to my alarm clock ringing. I get up and put on my new Voltron Legendary Defenders T-shirt and black ripped jeans. I go downstairs and look out one of the many large windows in my modern mansion. Looking out at the beautiful landscape on my private island. Gorillaz’s “Good Feel Inc.” plays through the house from my personal playlist. I go to my giant bathroom to get ready for today. 8:00 A.M. When I go downstairs for breakfast, I see that my…

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…

In chapter four, “Communities and Network”, Baym focuses on online interaction and how it occurs, including communities and social network. Throughout this chapter, Baym stresses that the word community does not have one correct definition, but instead introduces five qualities found in both online groups and in many definitions of community creating online contexts. These five qualities include: space, shared practice, shared resources and support, shared identities, and interpersonal…

Life, is not one of those people. In this ethnography, Boellstorff challenges that there is more than one real world and that virtual worlds have culture just as places in the real world do. The topic of virtual worlds or virtual reality is becoming more and more prominent in this age of technology and this is a reason why Boellstorff chose it to research. The term virtual is defined as “something that is so in essence or effect, although not formally or actually.” (Pg. 19), for example, a…

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…

Previously thought of as technology of the future, virtual reality is now a common, immersive multimedia used throughout many professional fields. It is essentially a three-dimensional, computer-generated environment, which can be explored and interacted with by a person. In this environment, a person becomes a part of this virtual world and is fully immersed into it, with the ability to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions. Virtual reality is often seen as being important simply in…