Synthetic Environments 4/1

Today we discussed the reading in class. Our main focus for class discussion started focusing around what our actual definition of virtual reality is. People started to give their definitions as well as myself giving mine which started with my story of putting on a headset and having a fully 3d environment and then discussing how video games today are also considered virtual reality due to the nature of a alternate world that we are able to interact with. Scott added onto my comment and said the thing that we were talking about but just missing a little was that virtual reality seems to have a need of the user to be able to interact with the alternate reality.