Perception Of Virtual Reality

Ever since human beings developed Its ability to think rationally and realized they have free will to do whatever they liked, they strived. First it began with ensuring basic need are satisfied. After that they had to provide safety and resources, shelter. Then they united, created bonds, in communities and when they were strong and confident enough they explored. This is almost like Maslow’s theory of needs just on a larger scale. Through communication with other cultures they expanded their knowledge, developed connections, built roads, railroads, constructed mesmerizing cities as big as the eye can see and bigger. Even through wars and crisis, people learned, had purpose, struggled, became stronger, and that is also part of the journey forward.

In other words, our entire experience of reality is simply a combination of sensory information and our brains sense-making mechanisms for that information. It stands to reason then, that if you can present your senses with made-up information, your perception of reality would also change in response to it. You would be presented with a version of reality that isn’t really there, but from your perspective it would be perceived as real. Something we would refer to as a virtual reality.”

To represent reality, we use linguistics and mathematics. If virtual reality is observed as a communication process between people, mediated by computers, it also can be a communication between a machine and the human. As communication is the act of exchanging meanings through language and language being system of sings, relation between machine and humans can be explained with semiotics.

“Semiotics (also called semiotic studies; not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology which is a part of semiotics) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign processes and meaningful communication. This includes the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication.

Sometimes we get caught up in that circle that we do not realize it is not life, but just representation of it. Watching reality programs and believing that romances happening there are real ones, and that is how love is supposed to be. Fashion industry setting ridiculous standards, of beauty, body shape, size, weight, but is all real? People constantly dwelling in front of the television, like people in Plato’s cave, and watching all that beauty, glamor and perfection may find themselves living more in the virtual world than the actual one. Baudrillard explains how something as terrible as war, in this case the Gulf war, can be staged and through media propaganda make is impossible to distinguish what really happened from what was presented making it more virtual than real. It seems like people are already living more in a fantasy without even realizing and virtual reality can be just one step to total