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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Virtuality V.S. Reality

    
     This video records Burberry's Fashion show in Beijing. In this fashion show, Burberry use 3D technology. There were only six models during that show, all the rest model that we see are created by 3D technology. I really feel amazing when I watched this video, because I have never seen the virtual people to be that real, sometimes, I could not recognize which one is the real one and which one is virtual before the virtual image suddenly disappear. Thus, we could notice a tendency for our future- Technology is important for today, but it would play an more crucial role in the future, and I am afraid that the virtuality may take place of our reality one day.
     With the improvement of our technology, we could satisfy our imagination that we could achieve things that we used think impossible. In terms of Internet, people who get addicted to online game may live virtually as well. For example, some of my friends love playing online games. They could play the game day and night without eating and sleeping, which gets away from real world. Internet provides us many opportunities to escape from our real world if we want. Online shopping is a typical example. Comparing to the real shopping, online shopping provides us more opportunities both for the buyer and the merchants. For the buyers, they could compare more products and prices online, which is easy. However, for the merchants, they save the rental for real store and also the money for hiring sellers. Even virtual world provides many advantages for us, but I do not think that virtuality would take place of reality some day.
     It is obvious that virtuality becomes more and more important, but the real relationships that is real within people take more accounts of our life. For instance, I always use Skype to chat with my friends, of course,the image that I see on the screen is virtual, which I could not really touch, but the relationships between us is real, which is the reason why we create the virtual image. Therefore, I still believe that virtuality would not take place of reality, because there are still something that could tag and connect people together, which they are cherish and could not find any replacements.