Friday, July 17, 2009

Second Life...good or bad?

While playing in Second Life, there's always the question of how real is too real? Is there always a distinction between the virtual and the actual? Besides the fact that it's not technically real, the problem is that most people become so interlinked between the virtual that they think that it IS real. The merging of technology in our daily life has made virtual living potential. The introduction of the Internet and the three-dimensional technology progress has created a brand new society that there are no physical boundaries limiting social interaction. The virtual meeting was way more difficult and annoying. The whole situation was time consuming and too difficult to collaborate and bring each individual to the same area. The other problem was that when we met in Second Life, the others kept getting kicked off because their internet couldn't handle the bulk of Second Life or batteries kept dying.
The teaching implications could be astronomical. You can make students do daily tasks and teach them things through virtual reality. You can teach them organization skills and how to handle daily life. Also teaching them group lessons and how to socialize would be another amazing way to go through life. Again, students will learn very much through this. Society can benefit as a whole by dealing with problems and situations through virtual worlds and hopefully come to conclusions without problems. Artistically, the graphics will keep coming better and better. It's truly going to be amazing.

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