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VIRTUAL REALITY

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VIRTUAL REALITY: IS IT REAL?

Ronald Villanueva Hernandez
Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas

Master in Business Administration 504
Professor Roselie B. Alday
July 24, 2014

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Abstract

The contemporary world is greatly characterized with the usage of highly developed technology, tools, gadgets, and appliances. One just needs to look around him to see the truth to this statement. Be it in business, education, travel, medical, practically everything and anything, one uses technology to conduct daily living. These technologies underwent several processes and upgrades to be what they are today. Nonetheless, each technology still undergoes enhancements that would help individuals in going about their daily lives. The initial process with which technology evolved into what it is today was first conceptualized, then improved to what man utilizes today. A concrete example of this would be the television which is a common appliance in today 's world. Before the television became to what it is today (digital), it was first conceptualized, designed, produced, tested, developed and enhanced. As these things were first conceptualized, hence, the term "virtual reality" was coined. It is, therefore, a usual question whether the initial process was real considering that it was merely a concept, a virtual reality. It is in line with the above that the primordial purpose of this paper is to scrutinize whether virtual reality is indeed real or just a figment of man 's imagination.

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Virtual Reality: Is It Real?

Today 's technology has been conceptualized in the not so distant past and has been labelled as virtual reality. With the objective to utilize realities and things in order to help man in his daily living, several researches conducted studies and experimentations in order to produce materials that will be able to make life a lot easier to the end users of the same.


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