This document discusses whether virtual reality can augment human creativity or if it confines people to virtual worlds. It provides background on VR, describing it as an immersive virtual environment created with computer modeling. The document outlines VR's history and applications. It examines existing methods for using VR to enhance creativity in areas like education, visualization, and communication. Factors like environment, skills, and motivation are discussed as influencing creativity. The potential for VR and metaverses to inspire imagination and virtual interactions is explored, along with concerns about isolating people from real worlds. The conclusion is that VR can enhance creativity by improving visualization, simulation, and virtual collaboration and interactions.

1. JAYASH SAHU B210968MT
Does Virtual Reality Augment
Human Creativity?

2. Introduction
Virtual reality is about immersing yourself in an entirely virtual world.
The question is, does it really augment human creativity or rather is it
just confining us to the virtual world and separating us from the real and
vast world outside of it.

3. What is Virtual Reality?
The use of computer modeling
and simulation that enables a
person to interact with an
artificial three-dimensional (3-
D) visual or other sensory
environment.nment

4. Virtual Reality Timeline
1956
Sensoramais considered to be
one of the earlier VRsystem
1984
Jaron Lanier founded VPL
Research
2007
Google introduce Street
view
2016
Sony introduce playstation
VR
1991
The first Arcade VR machine
2030
VR will be a $28bn
market.

5. Virtual reality in real life
● This article summarized the existing methods of using
VR in enhancing creativity, and it provides a clearer
understanding of how VR is used to improve the five
aspects to enhance creativity.
● Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created
with software and presented to the user in such a way
that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real
environment
● The term virtual reality was coined in 1987 by Jaron
Lanier, whose research and engineering contributed a
number of products to the nascent VR industry.
● This article summarized the existing methods of using
VR in enhancing creativity, and it provides a clearer
understanding of how VR is used to improve the five
aspects to enhance creativity.
● Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created
with software and presented to the user in such a way
that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real
environment
● The term virtual reality was coined in 1987 by Jaron
Lanier, whose research and engineering contributed a
number of products to the nascent VR industry.

6. Existing methods using VR to improve creativity
● With the help of virtual reality we are able to create and perform
various tasks, which will be impossible if done otherwise.
● Creating a model for a solar system in 3D format and reliving it
will definitely improve our sense and understanding to learn and
visualize.
● VR is described as a computer-simulated stage wherein users can
be enabled to interact with the simulated environment using
special electronic equipment, such as a head-mounted display
and/or gloves fitted with sensors in a virtual space.
● Although further studies are required, using VR to help individuals
enhance real-world training, learning, and inspiring creativity is
considered an easy, less expensive, and an intelligent solution

7. Factors affecting creativity
● Environment - better social environment and a high-
level of task motivation can enhance the creativity
● Skills you have and you learn will affect your
creativity.
● According to coponentiahigh level componential theory
of creativity, although three individual factors (domain-
relevant skills, creativity-relevant process, and task
motivation), and the social environment without
individuals affect creativity, some specific aspects of
the physical environment are considered to have
positive effects in enhancing creativity.

8. Mark Zuckerberg
“The incredible thing about the technology is
that you feel like you’re actually present in
another place with other people. People who try
it say it’s different from anything they’ve ever
experienced in their lives.”

9. Virtual reality and dreaming?
● Just like in dreaming you can imagine any possibilities,
but you can not explain them to others, but with the help
of virtual reality you can not only create your dream or
idea but you can show them to the world
● You can shape your imagination to every extent and you
can explain your idea easily.
● This makes imagining your science project, biological
diagram, or any other complex structure easy.
● This will increase our imagine power which I directly
proportional to creativity to a large extent.

10. Creative use of VR in daily life
VR Games
For example, you can play the role
of a cop in a virtual world game,
which might be not possible in the
real world.
VR videos
Three-dimensional videos help us to
develop a better understanding
compared to a normal videos
Using of VR in the
science project
Viewing a 3-dimensional view of
the project will not only help you
to understand better but also
increase your imagination about
that project
Metavese
Having a wireless virtual
conversation with others will
enhance the conversation, this
technology is still in development
face

11. What is metaverse?
Will it augment creativity

12. METAVERSE
The metaverse is a concept of a
persistent, online, 3D universe that
combines multiple different virtual
spaces. You can think of it as a future
iteration of the internet. The metaverse
will allow users to work, meet, game,
and socialize together in these 3D
spaces
Creating your own avatar and your
own world and visiting others’
worlds virtually will directly
improve our communication and
creative skills, but will it socially
divide us from the real world?
Metaverse

13. Using VR to create the physical environment for improving
creativity
For understanding of
environment
Sometimes some natural process are
to complex to imagine, withdevelop
the help of VR , too it helps to
develop a better understanding.
To predict future
possibility
VR helps us to develop a virtual world
and by the help of environmental
undestanding.

14. Conclusion
● These slides summarized the existing methods of using VR in enhancing
creativity, and it provides a clearer understanding of how VR is used to
enhance creativity.
● We understood that with the help of Virtual reality we not only improve our
imagination power but we can create our imagination with help of VR
● Metaverse, a digital platform to virtually represent yourself in our own
creative avatars to interact with other people all around the world virtually
● using VR to simulate nature will also forest creativity, because VR can
simulate nature and allow individuals to immerse themselves in a virtual
environment that can inspire visual interests, feeling of excitement, and a
sense of freshness as well as entertaining, stimulating intellectual and
cognitive abilities, and thereby promoting creative behavior that helps
improve professional knowledge and creative skills, stimulate motivation,
and enhance creativity

15. Virtual reality is like
dreaming with your
eyes open
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