Week 9 - Entertainment and Multimedia on Internet

What is multimedia? It is a computer-based interactive communications process that incorporates text, graphics, sound, animation and video. I will focus more on gaming. I did play some video games when I was younger and I have seen how it has evolved along the years.

My Choy showed us some really cool videos on virtual reality today. I am so amazed and I can't wait for it to be applied in our current age.

So what is virtual reality?

What I picked up from class is that you can convert reality into virtuality and vice versa. You can play a computer action game and you are like "physically" playing the game!

Or you could be shopping and use phone and gadgets to help detect the pricing of things etc etc..
Augmented reality: Augmented reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements areaugmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality.^[1] By contrast, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one.^[2][3] Augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding computer vision and object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally manipulable. Artificial information about the environment and its objects can be overlaid on the real world.