Saturday, August 02, 2008

VR - The way TO the Future

Ever since I made up my handle way back in Uni for a new phenomenon called IRC, I had been taglining my emails with 2 short sentences:
VR - The way OF the Future
VR - The way TO the Future

The capitalisation was important as it outlined my pet philosophy at the time. Virtual reality is definitely going to be the way of the future, unfortunately is still taking longer than I thought. The second part is a little more in depth and I had cornered many a traveller into a conversation about virtual reality as an education medium that is able to change the world as we know it.

At Uni we have been looking at a collaborative assignment on E.Learning futures with a view to submitting the final paper to the Australian government as ideas for Rudd's Digital Education Revolution. It triggered memories of my old philosophy and with a bit of dust blowing I managed to write down my thoughts for merging with the rest of the document. So here's the latest on
VR - The way TO the Future