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Virtual Reality: Peculiarities and Opportunities
Authors: Tamara L. Salova
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The article features a phenomenon of virtual reality, peculiarities, technologies; virtual world tools as well as new possibilities of the Internet are considered. The author comes up with the idea, that there are a lot of negative consequences in virtual environments. But it is enough to recall, that human beings bear responsibility for their actions, and make decisions in regard to the use of virtual services and real life. Huge opportunities of the Internet should serve the mankind. Such opportunities include: collective creativity, webinars, virtual scientific research, psychological study with further correction, quit and user-friendly access to informational recourses, freelance, on-line conferences and forums. And to top it off – new trends for shifting jobs from office to home, flexible working hours, temporary business alliances, dynamically changing working groups. Allthis makes virtual reality not just an opportunity, but something vital.