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Social Impact and Challenges of Virtual Reality Communities

Social Impact and Challenges of Virtual Reality Communities

Rafael Capilla
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781615206315|ISBN10: 1615206310|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923532|EISBN13: 9781615206322
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-631-5.ch010
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Capilla, Rafael. "Social Impact and Challenges of Virtual Reality Communities." Virtual Technologies for Business and Industrial Applications: Innovative and Synergistic Approaches, edited by N. Raghavendra Rao, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 164-180. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-631-5.ch010

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Capilla, R. (2011). Social Impact and Challenges of Virtual Reality Communities. In N. Rao (Ed.), Virtual Technologies for Business and Industrial Applications: Innovative and Synergistic Approaches (pp. 164-180). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-631-5.ch010

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Capilla, Rafael. "Social Impact and Challenges of Virtual Reality Communities." In Virtual Technologies for Business and Industrial Applications: Innovative and Synergistic Approaches, edited by N. Raghavendra Rao, 164-180. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-631-5.ch010

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Abstract

The phenomenon of virtual reality has crossed geographical and social barriers since virtual reality applications started to be used massively by non-expert users. The development of high-cost and complex virtual reality applications for concrete domains and highly skilled users have widened its scope to the general public, which exploits the Internet to create, share, and configure virtual communities of users and avatars that transcend organizational, political, cultural and social barriers. This chapter analyses the social impact of different software platforms and environments that can be used to create virtual communities, and also how these platforms provide different collaborative capabilities among their members. The author also analyzes how virtual reality technology impacts in the creation and use of virtual communities, as well as outlining the benefits and drawbacks in a globalized context.

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