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Unit 4
Living with technology
Extended Reading: Virtual Reality
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What is VR?
three-D images, sounds and other sensory information
a super-realistic effect called “presence”
Virtual
Reality
Reality that is not real
a real-time technology providing users with real-time experiences
three-D images, sounds and other sensory information
a super-realistic effect called “presence”
a VR headset equipped with sensors and a screen
What is VR?
a real-time technology providing users with real-time experiences
Virtual
Reality
Reality that is not real
About the text type
an interviewer and an interviewee.
An interview
conversation
is a r
eal-time
between
About
Interview
an occasion when a famous person is asked questions about their life, experiences, or opinions for a newspaper, magazine, television program etc.
an occasion when a famous person is asked questions about their life, experiences, or opinions for a newspaper, magazine, television program etc.
an interview
Real-time
conversation
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Are you still optimistic about the future of VR?
There must be some barriers to the development, I guess?
Can you tell us what virtual reality is and how it works?
What about its uses for highly developed technical industries such as medicine?
Can you give some examples of the practical applications VR has?
How will it affect the different aspects of our everyday lives?
What is VR and how it works?
What are its applications?
What are the barriers to its development?
What is Frank’s attitude towards it?
education
highly developed technical industries (…)
everyday lives (…)
time
cost
technical limitations
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reality that is not rea;
three-D images, sounds and other sensory information
a super-realistic effect called “presence”
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Are you optimistic about the future of VR?
adjectives showing Frank’s optimistic attitude to VR
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