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Part of the appeal of video games is the visual eye-candy that splashes across the television or monitor screen. But even the addictive imagery is only half of the answer. The remaining half is the magic bestowed upon our eyes when this imagery comes to life. Animation that’s controlled by a gamer is all it takes to escape into a different time and place, a time and place brought to you by virtual reality.
As you can imagine, virtual reality is a hypothetical three-dimensional visual world created by a computer. Players can enter and move about in this world and interact with objects as if inside it.
Some of the games that are already on the market give a pretty good idea of what virtual reality is and can do. Video games like Half-Life, Second Life, Halo or Harry Potter allow players to enter into an environment and interact with objects, but they don’t allow the player to create an environment and that’s what virtual worlds are all about.
Without a single ounce of programming experience, anyone can create a virtual world and have loads of fun doing so. All one needs is an idea.