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Running Head: Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality
Rodrigo Picchioni
Lynn University
Virtual Reality
The world that we live in today has many new technologies and trends coming in pretty
much a daily basis. One of the latest technologies that has been available to the public and
that is currently having a lot of acceptance and success is the technology of virtual reality.
Even though this a relative newly popular technology, the first foundation of it can be
traced back to 1860, according to Virtual Reality (2016). There are many people that claim
to have invented this technology, including Jaron Lanier, Douglas Engelbart, Ivan
Sutherland and Myron Krueger. However, virtual reality in its core is considered to be
invented by Morton Heiling, who produced the first interactive film experience in which
the viewer could watch a film using only their senses.
So, what exactly is virtual reality? Virtual reality is “the creation of a virtual environment
presented to our senses in such a way that we experience it as if we were really there”
(Virtual Reality, 2016). In other words, it is a mechanism that simulates our real world
with the use of technology so that we feel that we are actually experiencing something that
in fact we aren’t.
Virtual reality has become a very popular mechanism in the business world, with a lot of
companies using it for various different purposes. According to O’Brien (2016), large
corporates such as Netlifx, Amazon and Ford are spending billions of dollars on this
