Some of our students seem to be living a virtual reality all the time and forget about their daily routines. This is not good for them because they don't really face the problems that matter, but not everything is bad when talking about virtual reality.
A listening exercise for you to do: Can VR treat fears and phobias? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
Some articles for you to read about the issue:
Virtual reality can help people conquer their phobias (The Guardian)
Video to watch: Could virtual reality help treat anxiety? (BBC News)
Can virtual reality cure phobias? (The Guardian)
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ResponderEliminarDuring the last years the technology has been improving in different systems, ways to communicate, new video games and other thing which we use in our day.
For example, the virtual reality is a new ways to communicate or to watch things in a virtual atmosphere with special glasses. Many teenegers ,who can buy this special glasses because it is very expensive and most of people can’t buy it , can watch and do much things with them like play with other friends, talk with people who live in other country and life the video games with your own body.
These have got advantages and disadvantage, their advantages are you can play video games with your own body, talk with other people and enter different worlds where you can live different experiences and these disadvantage virtual glasses make you waste a lot of time playing with them, you don't study, you lose routines and you get a bad routine.
From my point of view, if I were you, i wouldn’t buy it because it is very expensive to buy it, hard to get it and it they make you waste a lot of time playing with them or doing different things that the glasses allow you instead of studying
SERGIO GARCIA LOPEZ 1ºBACH A
During the latest years the technology has been improving in different systems, ways to communicate, new video games and other things which we use in our day.
ResponderEliminarFor example, virtual reality is a new way to communicate or to watch things in a virtual atmosphere with special glasses. Many teenegers ,who can buy these special glasses because it is very expensive and most people can buy them , can watch and do many things with them like playing with other friends, talking with people who live in other countries and life the video games with your own body.
These have got advantages and disadvantages, their advantages are you can play video games with your own body, talk with other people and enter different worlds where you can live different experiencing and these disadvantages virtual glasses make you waste a lot of time playing with them, you don't study, you lose routines and you get a bad routine.
From my point of view, if i were you, i wouldn’t buy it because it is very expensive to buy it, hard to get it and it they make you waste a lot of time playing with them or doing different things that the glasses allow you instead of studying
SERGIO GARCIA LOPEZ 1
It is true than lately, more and more people are thinking about a place to escape to. And, fortunately or not, recently it has appeared something like that. Have you ever heard about the metaverse? It is a digital place which tries to imitate the real life, something like a second life. Curiously, the first metaverse was called “Second Life”, it was a platform where everybody could create his own maps, and then meet people there.
ResponderEliminarIt is reaching a really good likeness, even having its own currencies, the cryptocoins. And here comes the problem. A world based on cryptocoins is a world based on speculation. People have started to buy and sell digital places with prices as if they were real ones. Now, you can be wondering, how can a person buy a terrain in a digital platform? Well, the answer is easy, they hope to sell it even more expensive than how they have bought it, and so, become rich.
Due to this, the metaverse has been criticised a lot. And, I don´t defend it, I think that nowadays it is in a really early phase, but the idea is really good. Somewhere to escape to, to avoid your obligations, to meet people from everywhere. But, how do we separete reality from fiction? That´ll be a really important problem. If you enter a metaverse with a virtual reality glasses, you won´t be able to notice if you are or not in the real world, and that´s dangerous
In conclusion, I can say that the metaverse will be one of the biggest advancements the society will ever do, but nowadays, it is too young. However, we have to be carefull with it, because it will not only bring new scam ways, but other kinds of crimes.
David Bacas 2º Bach
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ResponderEliminarNowadays, we have different type of devices in comparison with the things that our parents had. Virtual reality is a good example of the advances of technology.
ResponderEliminarOne of the uses of virtual reality is in videogames. It is incredible because you can play and feel all the things that happen in the game. For example, you can fight, drive a car, do the movements… It is funny, but it is expensive and addictive.
Recently, everybody talk about the metaverse. It is a world where we can do the same things that we do in the real life. Obviously, this is impossible because the feelings can’t be the same, it isn’t our body.
In conclusion, virtual reality can be used for other things like education and medicine. However, it can be dangerous, because people can be addicted and forget the real world.
Leo Maldonado Castro 2º Bach
In lastest decades, technology has improved a lot, and has created things like virtual reality. And, what is actually virtual reality?. Virtual reality, usually abreviate as VR, consists of the creation of stimulated enviroments, and they are a three dimensional experience, so you interact with a 3D world, not only with a screen as we usually do. One of the most important people in this field is Palmer Luckey, who is the creator of the Occulus, one type of virtual reality's glasses.
ResponderEliminarVirtual reality is usually used in videogames, creating videogames where you can interact with almost all the things that are in that 3D world. But recently,it has been discovered that virtual reality can also be used to solve some illnesses, such as anxiety or other problems, like fears or phobias. For this reason, it can be used like a medical device, to treat, for example, fear of height. Because if you put your headset, the virtual reality glasses, and you move higher and higher of the floor, you may lose your fear of heigh.
And this tecnology can make you think like Palmer Luckey's thought. He set out videogames, in which if you die, you will also die in the real world. He defends his idea saying that there are also some sports and activities, like car racing where you can get killed doing it, so he wants to include videogames. That is not the first time that we can hear this, we have already seen some films or series that make reference to this topic, like Matrix or Sword Art Online.
As a conclusion, summing up virtual reality is something really good and useful, but you need to know what you are doing, because if you spend a lot of time in a virtual world you won't do all you must do in your real life. Besides, I think that the idea of dying playing a videogame is absurd, you usually play a videogame to entertaint yourself and spend a good time, not to die.
Francisco González
Technology advances faster and faster with time. One of the areas of technology that has advanced the most is virtual reality.
ResponderEliminarIt is not unreasonable to say that we are getting closer to being able to live an experience very similar to real life in a virtual world. We are getting closer to getting it, the closest we have to that right now is the Metaverse.
Although all this may seem very nice, it also has its downside. There are more and more people who do not face their problems and flee from them taking refuge in virtual worlds. If we got a world similar to the real one in a virtual one, these people did not want to leave there.
In conclusion, this virtual world is something very close that can be an incredible achievement. But it can also be a very bad thing for some people.
Pablo Javier Flores Funes 1ºBach A
Nowadays, technologies are a problem for teenagers. Many of them are addicted to them and do not want to leave their homes because they are playing mobile or console.
ResponderEliminarI think that children who have these problems should be helped by their parents, because it is not a good option for your child to spend all day playing with consoles.
Virtual reality is used many times for video games, this is amazing, you can do many things like drive a vehicle, you can shoot your enemies and many more things. This is a very fun way to pass the time when you are bored, but you have to remember that you can't play all day or you will have serious problems.
Virtual reality can also be used for other things like education and medicine.
Also, today there is talk of the metaverse. I think it's a very original thing since you can do the same things as in the real world, but it can also be an addiction if you don't know how to use it.
In conclusion, technology is a good option for having fun, studying, and for medicine, but you have to know how to control it.
JOSE ADRIÁN GONZÁLEZ 1ºA BACH
Technology has advanced a lot these years.
ResponderEliminarAbout 11 years ago we didn't even have touch phones.
Virtual reality glasses were recently created.
These glasses are mostly used by young people to play video games. It's pretty cool because you can see everything around you and feel like you're in the game.
These glasses are also used by scientists to do experiments and also for education.
We could say that little by little we could be closer to living in a virtual world with these glasses. Imagine being able to be with your friends in a virtual world without leaving home, it would be quite impressive right?
But we would also have to be careful with these glasses because it could be an addiction. Surely there would be people who would never want to take them off, and that would be a big problem.
In conclusion, technology is advancing more and more and can be good for some things, but we should never abuse it.
DAVID PÉREZ MORENO 1A
Technology has advanced a lot these years.
ResponderEliminarAbout 11 years ago we didn't even have touch phones.
Virtual reality glasses were recently created.
These glasses are mostly used by young people to play video games. It's pretty cool because you can see everything around you and feel like you're in the game.
These glasses are also used by scientists to do experiments and also for education.
We could say that little by little we could be closer to living in a virtual world with these glasses. Imagine being able to be with your friends in a virtual world without leaving home, it would be quite impressive right?
But we would also have to be careful with these glasses because it could be an addiction. Surely there would be people who would never want to take them off, and that would be a big problem.
In conclusion, technology is advancing more and more and can be good for some things, but we should never abuse it.
DAVID PÉREZ MORENO 1A
I’m going to talk about virtual reality, I really like virtual reality because you can imagine doing many things with them, there are many games of the play in which you can pass as if you were an animal, I don’t have that game but I have tried it and the experience is quite impressive as it is as if you feel it, my favorite virtual reality games are one of being a hairdresser, bus driver and many more.
ResponderEliminarMy friend Alex was the one who taught me about virtual reality, a lot of people hurt to like it because it’s like you feel it. Abel Martínez Padilla 4A