Virtual reality

Reality In everyday life, reality is hardly questioned; if one can see it, hear it, touch it or perceive it through any other sense, then that thing is accepted to be real. However, this simple reality test is by no means reliable and is conducted under the complete trust in our human sensors. This may be why we as a human race find it hard to understand thing like space-time and antimatter because although theorised and somewhat proved, it…

enlightenment, only then was he able to truly see what the world had to offer and thus he gained a different concept of reality. This shows us that our perception is reality. Upon returning to the cave, he tried to enlighten the others he was with before, but they simply laughed in his face and mocked him. These people in the cave understood reality, or at least what they perceived to be reality, and they had no intentions of changing their perception. So this raises the question as to who’s…

Realism isn’t producing reality rather it’s giving a sense of reality in way that is easy to relate and understand by the audiences. This all is attained by making sure that all the links between the content and elements are proper and also sounds reasonable, while following the basic laws of cause and effect. In other words, realism is defined by “the way it makes sense of the real, rather than by what it says the real consists of.” (Fiske, 1987, pg. 24). Television shows try to connect…

Nicolás Juárez “I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”: Vietnam, the Non-Ethics of War and Modernity as God In the dark, early July morning of 1945, in an arid, barren desert in New Mexico, the first atomic bomb exploded. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the project, would recall that amongst the scatterings of laughter and tears, there was an overwhelming silence that haunted the crowd. He would, upon seeing this falling star crash into Earth, speak a line from the sacred Hindu text,…

It is often debated whether or not films can be used as a historical source. People such as Ian Jarvie, an English philosopher, argue that films are nothing more than mere entertainment. He said that “At best, film is a visual aid.”. On the other hand, you have people like French theorist, Pierre Sorlin, who said that “historians have admitted for a long time that films are important pieces of evidence for any study of the twentieth century and it is no longer necessary to justify an incursion…

TO DREAM OR NOT TO DREAM, WHAT IS REALITY? Inception vs Descartes. Inception suggests that you can know that you’re dreaming and therefore act and behave accordingly in a dream to achieve a desired outcome. While Descartes, states that while in a dream it is impossible to know that you are dreaming. In both the movie Inception and Descartes, each infer that dreams can be so real that it is impossible to know if you are dreaming or not. The movie solves this question by introducing the concept…

Over this semester, the two works that stood out to me the most were Plato's Cave and the writing Jobs in the bible. Plato's Cave is allegorical writing with much representation in the atmosphere of the story. Plato's cave starts off by describing a dark, little to no light cave with people chained down by shackles in it. The peoples only entertainment and occupation is watching the shadows on the wall. They know nothing else but the show does that apead on the Wall.Eventually in the story, one…

Imagination can be found in every person; it is a mental ability that drives a person, be it in a positive or negative way, into developing an opinion from something unknown to them. A person can be influenced, by their imagination, into taking risks, making decisions or seeing different aspects of their current circumstances. In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, imagination came into play as a key factor of how Crusoe developed throughout the novel; because it opened his mind into seeing…

little light that there is, the people watch shadows of varies objects for all their time and that is basically there world. Little do they know, there is a whole beautiful, light-filled world outside of that. One person soon escapes and comes to the reality of this. When this individual comes back to tell all his friends in the cave, they do not believe or recognize him so they decide to kill him and continue to live in there own world of the cave. Plato's Cave is not just about the content…

In this essay, the questions that will be discussed are the importance of camera movement on the style of the film and the question about whether or not having a clear, serious story is the only reason to watch a film like Broken City. In my opinion, camera movement is the most crucial aspect in filmmaking to the extent that there might be no point in even shooting a film if there would not be any frame movements involved. It is like the seasoning of the filmmaking process. When camera movements…