It’s not the experience of a lifetime; it’s the lifetime of an experience, says Raunak Roy
I used to have a t-shirt that said “100% virtual,
the real me is at home!” I must have lost it, as I don’t see it in my cupboard any more. But sometimes, I wonder how easy it would have been to send another me to work on an especially cold December morning. I could just sleep at home. Well, apparently the day is not far away, as this story will tell you. Allow me to introduce you to a shocking future involving virtual reality and MMORPGs. If you have never heard of an MMORPG and you think it is some esoteric piece of software, you are surprisingly close to the truth. MMORPG stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.
It connects millions of people across the world on a single online platform in the form of a 3D virtual world, which is also a game. Most people consider Second Life to be just another MMORPG. But they are confusing between a MMORPG like “Ragnarok” and a 3D virtual world like Second Life. The difference is elementary. The former is – as the name suggests – a game, and thus, has a victory or a defeat. You can play different scenarios, but the game will end with someone winning and someone else losing. 3D virtual worlds are not games but complete environments that you just virtually inhabit. Based on the features of the world, you could have specific objectives but there is no winning or losing involved. If this basic difference is clear, think about this: you could have an MMORPG inside a 3D virtual world, which could have a win-loss scenario. So you are in a virtual world playing a virtually virtual game with some resident of the virtual world.
So what does the future have in store? Now, that’s the million dollar question. And we cannot see the future. So we do the next best thing: predict it. We base our prediction on some of the things happening right now that look too futuristic to be true. And along with this disclaimer, I must warn you that most things in this feature will sound like science fiction if you are not plugged into the concept. But today’s science fiction is always tomorrow’s reality. And we can all agree to that. If any of you watched Star Trek in your childhood, I am sure you remember the small communication device Captain Kirk used to whip out of his pocket. We all have one of those in our pockets today.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
I used to have a t-shirt that said “100% virtual,
the real me is at home!” I must have lost it, as I don’t see it in my cupboard any more. But sometimes, I wonder how easy it would have been to send another me to work on an especially cold December morning. I could just sleep at home. Well, apparently the day is not far away, as this story will tell you. Allow me to introduce you to a shocking future involving virtual reality and MMORPGs. If you have never heard of an MMORPG and you think it is some esoteric piece of software, you are surprisingly close to the truth. MMORPG stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.It connects millions of people across the world on a single online platform in the form of a 3D virtual world, which is also a game. Most people consider Second Life to be just another MMORPG. But they are confusing between a MMORPG like “Ragnarok” and a 3D virtual world like Second Life. The difference is elementary. The former is – as the name suggests – a game, and thus, has a victory or a defeat. You can play different scenarios, but the game will end with someone winning and someone else losing. 3D virtual worlds are not games but complete environments that you just virtually inhabit. Based on the features of the world, you could have specific objectives but there is no winning or losing involved. If this basic difference is clear, think about this: you could have an MMORPG inside a 3D virtual world, which could have a win-loss scenario. So you are in a virtual world playing a virtually virtual game with some resident of the virtual world.
So what does the future have in store? Now, that’s the million dollar question. And we cannot see the future. So we do the next best thing: predict it. We base our prediction on some of the things happening right now that look too futuristic to be true. And along with this disclaimer, I must warn you that most things in this feature will sound like science fiction if you are not plugged into the concept. But today’s science fiction is always tomorrow’s reality. And we can all agree to that. If any of you watched Star Trek in your childhood, I am sure you remember the small communication device Captain Kirk used to whip out of his pocket. We all have one of those in our pockets today.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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