300 - 500 word essay on the Virtual World

For my research in multimedia technology I have chosen a simple but yet an amazing piece of multimedia which has and will change the way people will communicate for many years to come. I am talking about the virtual world; the virtual world is basically a reality world of our existing world but with more of an unrealism theme towards it. I think that the virtual world is more than just a place to communicate with your friends; it has many other useful and important features which companies all over the world can benefit from.

One of these features is being able to have a board meeting with thousands of people and although half of them may be on the opposite side of the world it can still be done with minor problems e.g. time difference. Another feature of the virtual world is that it can be used to teach children over the internet about Math, English, Science and other topics with an added fun factor so that the children wouldn’t get bored of learning and would keep them occupied for a lot longer than reading from a book.

Example of the virtual world is Second life



But with technology getting better each year the virtual world has improved a lot i.e. now it is possible to customize your avatar (your virtual world character) so that it looks exactly like you in every way e.g. age, skin colour, gender and different items to express your likes and dislikes.

Example of different styles of customizable avatars

So the impact that I believe has/will happen is by using these save and protected virtual worlds will create a unique and fun experience to have meetings with your employees and to also teach children about work which by reading from books would make them loose concentration and therefore make it a fun factor for them.

Finally I believe by using the virtual world to do board meetings and to teach children (and many more reasons) would create less problems for shearing out information to thousands of your work team members, rather than handing out thousands of papers out and it would be a fun and learning experience to children that might one day become work in the multimedia fields.

Here is an example of what lessons can be teached