The Metaverse Flashcards
Virtual Worlds
A computer-generated world
Augmented reality
Digital objects injected into the real world
Wearing a headset and seeing students in real life and virtual students
Virtual Reality
Put on a headset and be fully emerged in the virtual world
The fantasy is that it wants to connect people
Used for gaming, training
VR is always mediated, a world where you have presence (you take up space), empathy/connection with people in a different way, and active procurator of your own world (deeper force of engagement)
Mixed Reality
The merging of a real-world environment and a computer-generated one.
Physical and virtual objects may co-exist in mixed reality environments and interact in real time.
XR
Stands for extended reality, and it encompasses all forms of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences.
Metaverse
Another world for the virtual world
Create a place like cyberspace
Facebook trying to complete this with Meta
Panoramas
Very long paintings that immerse people in, in their peripheral vision
Immersion
Stereoscope
a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.
Takes advantage that you have two eyes and feeds information to both eyes, which can be confusing in processing information
Sutherland, “The Ultimate Display”
1960s
Virtual worlds usage of the language of math to create worlds that don’t actually exist
Nonny de la Pena
Godmother of VR
Immersive journalism
Recreated news (real-life) events in VR
so that people can go back to relive them instead of reading about the events in newspapers
Strava
a VR company for training
Used by sports teams to give their players experience in different situations
A VR headset that puts them into situations and practice
Walmart is also a customer
Trains their customer through VR for stressful situations like Black Friday
Meta
Facebook
Their fantasy is that we move from real world to social media to fully be immersed in the virtual reality (truly virtual world)
Meta wants to control this whole process, which could be a reason for it not being as successful as they want it to be
