Neo reaches for the red pill sitting in Morpheus’s hand and with that action, he realises that The Matrix is a huge virtual reality. The Matrix gave virtual reality a bad reputation- an evil virtual reality where blurring of real life and the virtual world become intermeshed to such an extent that the characters are unable to tell the difference from the real and virtual environments.
Virtual Reality (VR) is when someone interacts with something that isn’t actually real. Ilda Ladeira, a Computer Science PHD student at UCT, says that most people believe VR is a “fancy” technology. “What people don’t realise is that when they are playing a game on an average computer- you are experiencing VR.” Continue reading
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