Benefits of virtual reality

Most people believe that gaming and virtual reality are bad for us, especially for children. The amount of times child and adolescent behavior are blamed on the nature of the games they play is un-real. However, some people do not realize how much it can help us as a society and help our jobs. If children and teenagers are interesting in gaming and making games then we should encourage them to seek out a profession in their chosen path. I've seen how passionate people can be about gaming, since at my university the computer science course is so close to the games technology course. This year I've found two of my best friends on the gaming course, and they cannot wait to start coding for games properly. (at the moment we are only first year). 

Back to virtual reality, it is the technology that companies are moving towards developing now. Oculus rift is an example of the virtual reality headset that is being developed by Oculus VR. Sony have also been working on headsets to be used with the PS4 console. Most people have a view of virtual reality for being just for games and letting people be completely immersed in the game they are playing. I have some reasons why VR is not just for that, not matter how awesome Skyrim would be in virtual reality.

Virtual reality can be used for more than gaming. It can be used for design of many things such as furniture, machines and in the picture (on the left) it is used at an Audi warehouse to design new cars. It makes it easier and probably quicker to design and shape how you want the object to look. It will probably will also be more accurate and reliable. 

The picture on the right also shows virtual reality being used by US Navy training. This style of training reaps many benefits for them. Firstly, it means that no one will be injured or killed, because many officers and soldiers are killed in training exercises, therefore this prevents many deaths, which are most likely to be accidental. Another benefit is that you could probably record the training exercise and play it back to analyse their performance.

Thirdly, virtual reality can be used to train other people than soldiers, for example, doctors and surgeons. If they can practice on virtual patients instead of real people the pressure will be less because the experience they are gaining are not at the potential expense of a life. It will be less stressful to operate on a virtual person, and in this situation, they will be also be able to play it back and evaluate where they went wrong.

In summary, hopefully, this post has made you think about the different and ever expanding reasons why virtual reality isn't just for gaming. 

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