Modeling Reality With Virtual Worlds

Virtual worlds can be a great way to experiment with life. From the article "In Room 100, It’s Sid and Nancy All Over Again"by Saki Knafo, Hotel Chelsea was remade by Michael Brown in an online game called Second Life. This shows how powerful the virtual world is when you can are able to create a whole new 3-D world by what you see in your fantasies.  He took pictures of the hotel on his vacation last year to help him construct the virtual one. According to the article “iReport: 'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction” by Nicole Saidi, the virtual world allows people with autism are able to interact with other. This allows them to feel better and able to cope with their troubles to communicate.

The pros of a virtual world are it saves time to travel to the place and the cost of traveling there. Virtualization allows people to interact with each other without feeling insecure about the appearance. Virtual World may be a great experiment with life. An example is when a user of the virtual world is moving furniture around which may lead to a career in architecture. The cons of the virtual world would tie up technology. In order to set up a virtual world may be costly. If a user becomes addicted to the virtual world, they may lose connection with the social world.

Foster creativity would be a great plus to the virtual world. It allows users to use their creativity to collaborate from what they see in real life and incorporate that into the virtual world. I believe virtual world will continue to develop and the amount of users will increase. I believe the virtual will be more populated and there will be more servers to support them.