Modeling Reality With Virtual Worlds

Virtual Worlds are becoming the new essence of the technological boom. It is normal to now apply these worlds to actual locations in the real world. Virtual Worlds allow users to explore the environment and interact with new people and information. Similar to Social Networking, it allows it users to communicate and interact, enabling them to share ideas and developing their own models. Virtual Worlds allow people to create characters with unique features which they'd wish to have but don't. For example, The Sims was one of the first games to introduce a virtual world were the players can create a character who would live a natural life just like we do, but everything was to the users discretion. This is not wrong, it can / have help many before to express themselves and practice interacting with society playing a role related to their identity. Virtual Worlds are a great experience if the user can control their sense of reality seperating the virtual world from the real world.

The only dark side I can a virtual world having is its mind control. It can build a urge that may control the users belief as to what is real and what is not. The joy the user gets from this world might be his/her escape for happiness creating a false sense of reality. Overall, Virtual Worlds can be a great experience for those with self-control, it can help a user better themselves and work on issues they face but do not address in the real world.