Virtual Reality

Choose the best meaning of the word compensate for in the sentence: I see very few developers making social VR spaces to compensate for those isolating headsets.

• replace with

• respond to

• make do with

• make amends for

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What does virtual reality allow users to do at the moment?

• see other places in 3D

• explore all their senses

• to work at home

• fully experience environments

As advanced virtual reality equipments becomes...

• affordable

• expensive

• difficult

• funny

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What Does VR Mean

• Virtual R

• Augmented Reality 

• Virtual Reality 

• VR

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Match the following

• Not Relevant

• “‘Mixed Reality’ VR facilities are training new army medics in the United Kingdom Armed Forces. Trainee medics enter mock inflatable helicopters complete with a life-like medical dummy. They put on VR headsets and treat the dummy patients. Professor Bob Stone of the University of Birmingham says that this training program ‘costs about 90 percent less’ and is ‘safer’ than other programs” (“Virtual Revolution”).

• Not Relevant

• “Doctors like Jose Luis Mosso Vazquez have experimented with giving patients VR experiences during procedures. Patients using VR during surgery reported 24 percent less pain and anxiety. This could have major applications for low-cost surgeries and hospitals in remote areas. It could bypass expensive and inaccessible anesthesia” (“Virtual Revolution”).

• Relevant

• “Eric Weimerskirch is a sixth grade social studies teacher from Pittsburgh. He thinks VR can expose students to diverse communities. It may even help them see beyond stereotypes. ‘This would be a great way to meet a child from another country without telling them beforehand what religion or nationality they are,’ Weimerskirch told public radio station WESA. ‘I think that would open their eyes’ (“Relearning History”).

• Relevant

• “A new classroom being tested out this year at Harvard Business School could offer a prescient glimpse into what education could soon become.
  
  Rather than walking into a building and sitting at desks, students tune in from home to Harvard’s ‘virtual classroom.’ In the class—called ‘HBX Live!’—up to 60 students from all around the world can be in a class ‘together’ at once, watching their professor, who stands in a soundproof studio on Harvard’s campus” (“Classroom 2.0”).

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What is the name of the virtual world that is the main setting of Ready Player One?

• The World Wide Web

• The Sahara

• The Oasis

• The Stacks

What is the name of the online virtual world everyone enters to live in?

• The Matrix

• The Oasis

• The Grid

• The Net

Immersive virtual reality is the most expensive form of VR

• True

• False

The best alternate headline for this Article would be

• A Virtual Reality Unlikely To Replace Museums, Officials Say

• New Game Challenges Players To Rescue a Furry Friend

• Glimpse the Great Barrier Reef Without Getting Wet

• Virtual Reality Offers Thrills, Grows in Accessibility

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Which statement from the Article best supports the opinion that some VR experiences may be too realistic for some users?

• One may choose to visit one of the Six Flags theme parks in the U.S., example, where the price of a regular admission gives you access to a roller coaster that has been recreated with Virtual Reality

• These attractions allow you to get a taste of VR without spending exorbitant sums on the requisite sophisticated hardware.

• Have you ever watched an adventure movie and wished you could be the protagonist in the exhilarating action- or gazed at a breathtaking vista and longed to trek up that mountain?

• There's one heart-stopping moment when the wood appears to bend slightly beneath your feet with the virtual abyss stretching in all directions, a moment so convincingly harrowing that it has compelled some players to complete the game on their hands and knees.