The impact of virtual reality on communities and people around the world

There is great concern about the impact of the virtual reality world on the quality of sensory communication between humans in the near future, due to the great technological development that accompanied virtual reality devices, especially in the field of games and social networking sites, where there are various devices such as, the Oculus Quest2 device, which was issued by Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and other very important social networking sites.

Also in the field of games there are devices such as Sony PlayStation VR which offers very high quality in the field of games that rely on immersion in virtual reality. The important question between our minds remains on these devices a danger to us or our children, or are they just devices that facilitate the process of communication in the future only, and here in this article we will learn about the honest answer, based on the latest studies related to this question.

The impact of virtual reality on humans in the near future

If you see a person wearing large glasses and walking in place and moving his hand in a funny way, he is not doing it to make you laugh, but he lives a world that he sees real through these glasses, and hears sounds that make his mind help to believe the image that you see as a sample through headphones integrated into the virtual reality glasses. In the near future, these glasses will become more widespread, so is their effect positive or negative? The answer is that they have both a negative and a positive effect, and the person who uses these glasses is able to determine the direction of this effect. So let's take you on a tour of the most important advantages and disadvantages of virtual reality glasses and how they affect humans.

The positive impact of virtual reality on humans

There is a significant positive impact in the technological circles of virtual reality devices, as a lot has changed the shape of life, and time management for many people based on the use of these modern devices, and we can see some of these positives in the following points:

The development of the physical and athletic side

There are studies that have shown that using virtual reality glasses while running on specialized treadmills encourages many people to exercise, because they know that they will not have to go to a fitness center, or go out in the extreme cold, but just wearing glasses and running the treadmill is enough for these people, because glasses allow them to see virtual reality as if they are running in green areas and lawns, when in fact they are inside their homes.

Also for fans of attending matches from stadiums, some clubs have customized 360-degree glasses that allow fans to get a view that simulates attendance from the stadium completely and directly, and this has helped elderly sports fans who are unable to move to be able to attend their teams' matches via virtual reality.

Engineering & Architectural Designs

Thanks to virtual reality, it has become possible for engineers to test their designs virtually through virtual reality, without resorting to miniature design.  Also, customers themselves are able to see the shape of the housing unit they will buy, through virtual reality glasses. Design companies currently use several designs for the same residential unit, but they do not make these designs on the ground, but through virtual reality so that customers wear glasses and see all the details as if they are real and not only that, but it is up to changing colors and interior designs immediately by pressing a button.

The evolution of games and entertainment content

Many games now rely on virtual reality glasses, and the advantage here is that the player has the ability to see 360 degrees, and this completely isolates the player from the real world, and makes him live a virtual experience equivalent to the real experience, where players feel more excited, and the level of competition.

Cons of Virtual Reality

Just as we talked about the advantages of virtual reality technology, we must be honest while showing the other side of it, and the extent of the negative impact that this technology has on humans, especially children.

Increasing the rate of societal separation

According to many community studies conducted on children who use VR glasses, they are directly affected by these glasses in terms of visual composition, imagination, and dreams. This affects children over time, and instead of forming the child's awareness naturally to go towards meeting new people, he wants to get to know people in the virtual world, and the more time he spends in this world, and these games, the more this child feels detached from reality, and this deprives children of learning about a lot of natural experiences over the years.

Poor health and physical impact

Besides feeling disconnected from society, virtual reality glasses have a bad physical impact. These glasses are not transparent, but are small 360-degree screens, and they are very close to the eye. These screens emit strong light rays that negatively affect the eye, and make it very dry, and this is accompanied by headaches to be inherent to users of these glasses, also for people who use them in motion, they sometimes suffer from nausea or vomiting, because they deceive the mind that they are moving very much or falling or falling while they are not moving these movements in fact, and this makes the human brain confused with a feeling of nausea, headache and vomiting sometimes as a kind of defensive reaction of the brain.

Lack of flexibility in dealing

Frequent virtual reality users lack the element of flexibility in the real world, because from their frequent immersion in virtual reality with hours on a daily basis, their minds begin to feel that this virtual reality is real, and real reality is virtual, so they begin to deal with the surroundings around them inflexibly, become more introverted, stay away from gatherings, do not show their thoughts or feelings easily.

Virtual reality has become not virtual, but tangible reality, and it has become normal to walk in the streets and see a person wearing glasses from Apple or Meta and pointing with his hand in the air incomprehensible signals, these scenes are real, and they will increase over time, but the important thing to know is that virtual reality glasses and that the world of virtual reality is not completely bad and not fully useful, but the person himself by using this technology is the one who will determine its positive impact or Negative it.