Architecture in a Virtual Reality

Having spent over a year plus creating primary architectural structures in a virtual reality, I was recently asked is it really real what I do? It's only on a screen, why would anyone pay you for what you do? They can only see it on a screen they can't touch it or feel it?

As a tool computers and the virtual world they do create allow individuals to create in ways unimaginable at an earlier time. So in turn architecture, arts and the process of creating many things will be develop at one of the fastest change curves it has ever encountered. Looking at some of the SL based architectural builds I have done they are all plausible and possible to be recreated in RL, yet remain in the realms of a virtual world. The effect of the virtual world is well documented on the results of the real world. CAD design, computer programs from the most complex to the simple Google build program has allowed access to the Virtual a common day occurrence.

Where some individuals have not made the transition is in how they perceive the virtual world. The person who asked the question "Is it real"? my response was is a movie real? is a book real? The response was yes I can see them I can touch a book and read the letters, the movie I can hold the disc and watch the production. I then asked are concepts real? are thoughts real? or for that case emotions? All of these are intangible concepts that lead to in some cases creative results. They agreed that they could be considered real.

So my point I followed up was that if its an intangible concept that's portrayed in a new medium, then it should leads one to believe that it must be real in the setting it abides in. So that a creation in a Virtual World is real in that world and has the capacity of effecting the individuals who inhabit the Virtual World or even have profound effects on individuals in the Real World. With the end results being it provides the same emotional or monetary results as other intangible creations have in the Real World even if it only exist in a Virtual World.

We are in essence not living in a separate Virtual/Real World reality but one that has combined the two into one. Where the transition from one to another becomes more subtle and more complex as this medium becomes the norm of every day life. So in conclusion what we have always been the way change comes to all. It may take a new form of displaying it self to the masses but it always occurs and we all eventually embrace change for what it is. So is it real as real as you allow it to be for sooner or later it will change again thats the one thing we do know to be real.

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