Virtual Reality, Robotics

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Virtual Reality has many advantages. It allows disabled people to do those actions that they normally cannot do. Using VR, people in wheelchairs, can have liberty of movement which they do not have in normal life. At present, very few people can afford to buy a VR system. But as the technology is growing day by day, lightweight helmets and more powerful computers will take VR into ordinary homes. Using virtual reality, doctors have already been 'inside' a body. At the University of North Carolina, USA, virtual reality allowed doctors to enter a cancer patient's chest to make sure that radiation beams needed to treat the cancer were in the right place. Doctors will soon be able to look at and study tumours at first hand and in 3-D rather than from scans and x-rays. Uses of Virtual Reality The uses for virtual reality are wide ranging and cover games where you can drive a car, fly a plane, help train doctors in the art of surgery or teaching pilots to fly aircraft safety. These computer generated worlds can be of any size - as vast as the universe or as small as atoms and molecules. However, along with the good comes the bad. Virtual reality could also be used for destructive purposes, such as war and crime. Hence, the uses for virtual reality are infinite. Importance of Virtual Reality Virtual reality is important because it can visualize the unknown or the unpredictable. This might lead to virtual reality operators carrying out repairs in space, with the help of a robot. In a technique called virtual puppetry a robot is controlled by a skilled operator and mimics all the operator's movements. The possibilities for virtual reality are enormous. Future residents of new towns will be able to walk around virtual streets, shops, houses and parks before a single brick has been laid. There are already plans to redesign the whole of the city of Berlin, the
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