Virtual Reality
Today Virtual reality allows people to study artificial worlds through
simulation and computer graphics. Computers have changed the way we perform
flight training, scientific research and conduct business. Flight simulators
have drastically reduced the time and money required to learn to fly large jets.
One of the most interesting capabilities of virtual reality is the ability to
practice certain medical practices. Computers are helping many doctors perform
complicated operations very simply. Computers have changed the way we look at
health problems. They have made incurable health problems very easy to solve in
today's society.
We have only begun to realize the extreme wastefulness of burning
expensive fuel in aircraft in order to learn something in an hour that could be
taught in ten minutes in a simulator. Simulators have come a long way since 1929,
when Ed Link first built what was soon to be known as the pilot maker, or more
affectionately, the blue......
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