Annotation of "Virtual reality exercise / Sweat's real scenery is not"

Kopytoff, V. (n.d.). Articles about Virtual Reality - SFGate. Featured Articles From The SFGate. Retrieved April 7, 2011, from http://articles.sfgate.com/keyword/virtual-reality

 

This was by far the most interesting annotation out of all five. It was an article about how people in today's society are out of shape and need to exercise more. How will they accomplish this? The passage talks about how new technology offers people the experience of riding a bike uphill through a beautiful rain forest, or a rocky mountain, or even a desert. They do this by simulating all the scenery through virtual reality. They are starting to come out with these and offer them at gyms around the world. It is as if nothing is good enough anymore, unless it is electronic. The point of this article was to talk about how people are trying to get others that cannot stop staring at a screen in their house to come and stare at a screen in the gym. How much more can the world continue to change? When will food we eat become not enough? When will people begin to feel like there just is not a broad enough variety of fruits and vegetables? Perhaps in these new realities there will be new food too? The arrival of virtual realities is only just beginning. I cannot imagine the controversy that is in store for virtual video games. What will happen to the minds of men when they spend hours and hours in another world? Worse, what happens when they come out of this second world and have been killing people for the last three hours. Talk about video games promoting violence. It is very uncertain where this new road of technology will lead us to. It may be in the best interest for man, but at the same time, it could very well be the beginning of our own collapse.

Here is the link: http://articles.sfgate.com/keyword/virtual-reality