The week 8 lecture was about the philosophy. What is considered by real in the history? What is virtual reality?
In the lecture, we saw a part of movie of Matrix. Have you seen the movie? I have, and I remember it was so deep and I did not understand it very well, but I was so shocked from many things. It is definitely a Hollywood entertainment movie, but the messages there are quite deep.
Cyberspace is not only a world in the movies and Sci-Fi novels anymore, and it exists as a part of our life now. Even during the web 1.0 era, there was a popular virtual town called Geocities. People were able to create their personal websites inside Geocities, and those contents were placed on the streets in a map of the virtual world.
Now we have thousands virtual worlds including online games and chat websites, and most people accept the fact that virtual reality is a part of our real world.
Here is a list of popular virtual worlds:
Disney's Toontown
Mokitown
Virtual Magic Kingdom
Whyville
Coke Studios
Dubit
Habbo Hotel
The Manor
The Palace
Playdo
The Sims Online
There
TowerChat
whyrobbierocks.com
Active Worlds
Cybertown
Dreamville
Moove
Muse
The Palace
Second Life
Sora City
Virtual Ibiza
Voodoo Chat
VP Chat
VZones
Moove
Traveler
Worlds.com
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
(Virtual Worlds List By Category, Virtual World Review, viewed 3/10/10, http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml)
What a world we have created. There could be a time very soon when we can actually eat and sleep and physically get satisfied in a virtual world!
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