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<p>Created page with &#39;<a href="/index.php/Category:Everyday_Life" title="Category:Everyday Life">Category:Everyday Life</a> Some of the more common VR environments include: ==Conference Rooms== Simple environments used for telepresence meetings. The most popular venues are l…&#39;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Everyday Life]]<br /> Some of the more common VR environments include:<br /> ==Conference Rooms==<br /> Simple environments used for telepresence<br /> meetings. The most popular venues are luxurious<br /> rooms or halls with culturally appropriate decor. Most of these<br /> include at least one “window” onto an exotic landscape (mountains,<br /> deep forest, undersea, space). No characters need to be<br /> managed by the node; the visitors provide all their own interactivity.<br /> Participants can “conjure up” elaborate audiovisual<br /> presentations, transmitted from their own computers.<br /> <br /> Businesses and social groups often use VR conference<br /> rooms for meetings, while schools use them as lecture halls.<br /> VR meetings have almost completely replaced face-to-face<br /> contact for many situations – such meetings are extremely<br /> inexpensive in comparison to the costs of globe-spanning travel<br /> and physical meeting space.<br /> ==Shopping Malls==<br /> These more complex environments allow<br /> merchants to display their wares in virtual space. Customers<br /> can examine goods at their leisure, placing orders for later<br /> physical delivery. Customer service representatives can be<br /> posted to answer questions and provide a human touch. Virtual<br /> storefronts also give merchants a great deal of control over<br /> the presentation of their goods (there are occasional scandals<br /> about subliminal advertising or goods not being quite as attractive<br /> in reality as they are in VR).<br /> ==Virtual Cruises==<br /> A “virtual cruise” is a slang term for any<br /> highly interactive VR experience which involves a small number<br /> of participants over a few hours of time, and which has a<br /> well-defined plot. In effect, a virtual cruise is the next step up<br /> in interactivity from an [[InVid]]. The participants<br /> are cast directly into roles within the scenario, and have more<br /> direct control over the course of events. As the name suggests,<br /> many virtual cruises are travelogues. Others include militarystyle<br /> training scenarios, historical pageants, and the roleplaying<br /> equivalent of short novels.<br /> <br /> Virtual cruises require the involvement of AI synthespians, taking on the roles of extras, expository characters,<br /> and other NPCs. Since virtual cruises are usually constrained to<br /> a linear plotline, the cyber-actors rarely need to be more complex<br /> than a low-level LAI program. Still, their involvement<br /> drives up the price significantly.<br /> ==Digital Kingdoms==<br /> A “digital kingdom” is a fully immersive<br /> roleplaying environment, involving up to thousands of<br /> players at a time. The simulation runs 24 hours per day; players<br /> drop in and out as their real-world schedules permit. Multiple<br /> plot threads are progressing at any given moment, with<br /> more constantly being generated by AI or bio-sapient artists.<br /> Synthespians, some of them high-end LAI or even SAI systems,<br /> animate hundreds or thousands of NPCs. Digital kingdoms<br /> tend to be fictional in nature. Anachronistic fantasies are<br /> popular, as are science fiction and historical settings with varying<br /> degrees of realism.</div>

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