Task 6. Match the sentence beginnings (1-6) with the correct endings (a-f):
| 1. Use of computer modelling and simulation enables a person 2. A computer-generated environment simulates reality by means of 3. The illusion of being in the created environment (telepresence) is accomplished by motion sensors that 4. The basis of the technology emerged in the 1960s in simulators that taught 5. It came in the 1980s and is now used in 6. It has potential for use in many fields | a) pick up the user's movements and adjust his or her view accordingly, usually in real time. b) interactive devices that send and receive information and are worn as goggles, headsets, gloves, or body suits. c) including entertainment, medicine and biotechnology, engineering, design, and marketing. d) how to fly planes, drive tanks, shoot artillery, and generally perform in combat. e) games, exhibits, and aerospace simulators. f) to interact with an artificial three-dimensional visual or other sensory environment. |
Task 7. Fill in the gaps using the list of words in the box. Translate.
| liquid-crystal sensors screen illusion devise link simulate cockpit simulation image stereoscopic electronic glove control create helmet launched video games |
A virtual reality system consists of a … with a color display in front of each eye, and wide-angle lenses to cover the entire field of view and give a … effect. The helmet contains …, rather like electronic compasses, to record where it is pointing. A computer calculates what the wearer should see in that direction and displays it on the …. In more advanced systems, the operator wears an … that detects exactly what the fingers are doing and transmits the information to the computer. If the user tries to pick up something, the computer will make the object follow the hand to give the … of carrying it.
Pads in the latest type of gloves press into the insides of the fingers and palm when an object is encountered, to … the illusion of feeling it. Complete ‘exoskeletons’ covering the user and allowing the computer … almost anything possible in real life are still in the laboratory.
The biggest initial market is likely to be for a new generation of … . W Industries have recently … a virtual reality system for video arcades. The system, called Virtuality, consists of a … in which a player sits, wearing the helmet, at a set of controls that can mimic a bobsleigh, a spaceship, or whatever the imagination of the games programmer can … . The helmet has a pair of … displays with wide-angle lenses giving a stereoscopic … , and a set of magnetic sensors to tell the computer what the helmet is looking at as it moves. The first game is a fighter … . Another is based on a sequence (eпiзод) in the film, Return of the Jedi, in which flying motor-cycles race through a forest. The computer can … and … several helmets at once for a group game.
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Task 8. Translate the following sentences into English.
1. Віртуальна реальність - це інтерактивне, мультисенсорне середовище, змодельоване комп'ютером.
2. Для людської раси віртуальна реальність стане поворотною віхою.
3. Віртуальна реальність принесе людству більше шкоди, ніж користі.
4. Найкраще застосування віртуальна реальність знайде у військовій та медичній техніці.
5. Віртуальна реальність дає шанс повноцінного розвитку інвалідам.
6. Людина створила комп'ютер, комп'ютер створив віртуальну реальність.
7. З подальшим вдосконаленням техніки віртуальна реальність стане одним з найбільш популярних способів подорожі.
8. Мистецтво з часом стане непотрібним, оскільки його замінить віртуальна реальність.
Task 9. Fill in the chart with the some more appropriate info:
Who uses Virtual Reality?
| User | Use | Implementation | Benefit |
| NASA | recreating different critical situations (e.g. situation ‘fire or not to fire’) | flight simulations; battle simulation | risk-free, inexpensive, military training |
| Architects | |||
| Medicine | turning a CAT scan into 3D model of the patient’s body; telepresence workstations for surgical procedures | microcameras attached to endoscopic devices relayed images that could be shared among a group of surgeons looking at one or more monitors, often in diverse locations | |
| Education | the Room of Educational Wall | ||
| Libraries | telepresence | ||
| Museums | creating a 3-D image of an exhibit |
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