Virtual Reality

What is virtual reality and what should it be?

Virtual reality today has now moved far beyond the simple old way of the VIEW MASTER in the late 1930s. As technology advances so do our virtual reality systems, it opens the endless potentials and possibilities to explore new ways of gaming and even new ways of storytelling, mapping our universe and many more applications. But the human race has a long way to go to get to that point. Given that virtual reality (VR) is only amide at the gaming community for now and still being research. The way of storytelling has and will change and is improved upon. Films and motion capture have adapted VR technology to its systems to give the player or 

film viewer more of and exciting and visual experience.

As technology progress forward so dose our under standing of Virtual reality systems. If you told me a few years ago that Virtual reality systems will be available to buy and be able to live up to our expiations to what Virtual reality should be like I would have never believe you no matter how good your argument is.  But as we developed more technologies and prefect the Virtual reality we will soon be able to buy our own Virtual reality systems. Such as the oculus rift by Sony and more and more companies are developing more of these Virtual reality systems such as 

Microsoft with there own Microsoft Hololens.

I believe soon we will be able to have access to these Virtual reality systems where we can see a different parts of the world or universe, or even playing games and watching films. This technology might be the next big thing to come out and revolutionised the way we intact with in games, movies and knowledge.

By Christopher Kralevski   

week 9 video game addiction

video game addiction

what is video game addiction? well it is explained as an impulse control disorder. and in some cases have been similar linked to pathological gambling. this form of addiction is also been referred as video game overuse or compulsive.

there are many people who are suffering from video game addiction. and possibly will use the internet to gain access to massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and multi-user domain games (MUDs). the main focus of these games are to accomplish goals and complete missions. reaching high scores in a fantasy world such as world of war craft or a first person shouter such as call of duty.

now many people have that negative effect towards gaming if you play it for too long. they think that the player does not get none or very little solacing with other people. but with games being so advance in technology many individuals who suffer from video game addiction use the large virtual world to connect with other people around the world. those people with video game addiction may enjoy aspects of the on line games that allows the player to meet and socialize and even exchange ideas through the games. these gamer play for such a great deal of time to accomplish tasks and missions the players feel obligation and loyalty to other players on the game.  This might further the individual’s good reason of his/her use and logic of association with other players, that are otherwise strangers.

because of the this statistics show that both men and boys are more prone to turn out to be a addicted to video games than women and girls. now new research has establish that almost one in 10 youth gamer (ages 8-18) can be classified as pathological gamer or addicted to video-gaming.

is video game addiction acts as a big part of the video gaming industry today. now i like to play games as much as the next guy but I do believe you have to have a balance between games and real life. video game addiction is a pressing matter but i do believe that it is a faze that will go away because after a while the player will get board and soon drop the game for something else and more exciting and better off. it even might be another game but I used to be addicted to gamming but i soon found the games that I was playing was getting boring to me and i started to stop playing games all the time and only play them causally here and there. and the statistics show that gamer are aged between 8 to 18 so children and young adults and that was about the time i started to find the video games less inserting and that is when I picked up other hobbies such as vintage cars and motorcycles. I believe that video game addiction in the next few years will soon decline because players will start to experience new technology and new ways to play games instead of the classic way of  playing games.

By Christopher Kralevski    

Week 8 Violence in Video Games

Violence in video games

Video games today are more aggressive and violence then the simple ways of gaming in the 1980. And studies imply that children are being more aggressive and violent because of this.

Researchers shows that the regular use of playing violet video games, over 3,034 children who the study’s was conducted on over a course of 3 years had a higher rate of aggressive behaviors and thoughts. The research was published in the JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the American medical association by researchers in Iowa state university and the national institute of education in Singapore.

The children who contributed where around 11 years of age and three quarters of them where boys. Many of the answers found by the boys and girls were alike and Researchers stated that their findings do sustain previous research that gives a link between video games and aggressive behavior.

Now you may think that video games are to blame of the violence that young children and adults show but take in mind that the research that was being

done over the 3 years had NO involvement from the children’s parent.

And now this leads me to believe that the mother and father have a big roll to play in this study. Now if booth of the parent acted in the children behalf knowing what is right for them violence in video games wont be a big problem for young children and adults. Because every time when a game get released and the child get the game and starts playing it and then the parents see what happens in the video game and complain and then want the game to be banned because simply the game is to violent for children to play and believe that the game developers are to blame for it.

Firstly that is not true. I believe the problem lies with the parent when they first buy the game for their child without ever reading that is the game about and content in the game as well. But they buy it any way simply because there 10 year old wants it. Now the parent has to think for their child because if you ask any 10 year old boy or girl they just want to eat candy and dink lemonade on a dally basics. And as we all know as fully-grown adults that are not a healthy way to live your life.

a large number of children and young adults still play violent video games. and still grows in numbers every day. To advance our understanding of the effects of violent video games and how to properly sensor it form young children and further explore the negative effects it has on the modern society.

by Christopher Kralevski