According to the notes, virtual reality mimics the real world. Some of the pros of this are advancements in video games and military training. However some of the cons are that is over looks basics laws of physics and it is time consuming to make these virtual worlds.
In an article in the New York Times, I Have Been In that Club, Just Not In Real Life, it explains that there is a website in which you can virtually tour some of the hottest night clubs in the Lower East Side. You can even dress your avi up to look like you or look like someone you want to be. I find this virtual world of going out to be a little bizarre. I feel that the problem with these virtual worlds is that it gives people the confidence to do things that they normally wouldn't have in the real world. However I find this problematic being that social skills are such a necessity in today's world.
In another article found in the New York Times titled, No budget, No Boundaries: It's the Real You, we learn that you can create a life for yourself and buy the latest designer fashion all inside of a virtual world. Like the other article I find it hard to believe that people get the same satisfaction living in this make believe world as they would get living in the real world. Although it seems like I find these virtual realities to be a negative idea, I would say that their are positives as well. The creativity and originally that it takes to make these worlds and communicate through it is incredible as well.
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