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仅做参考 好好学习，天天向上 Unit 8 Future World 未来的世界 Virtual reality technology is poised to transform science, education, and entertainment. 虚拟现实的技术随时准备着改变科学、教育以及娱乐。 “Virtual reality is created by using display and control technology to surround its users with an artificial environment that mimics real life,” explains Dr. Hasan Alkhatib, professor of computer engineering at Santa Clara University in California, U.S.A. “Through the use of visual and sound effects, things that don’t exist can be made to appear to exist. Virtual reality allows users to manipulate objects on the screen so they can become full participants in the three-dimensional setting that envelops them.” “虚拟现实是围绕它的用户通过显示、控制技术创建的模仿现实生活的人工环境美国加州圣克拉罗大学计算机工程学教授哈桑·阿尔卡蒂比博士解释说。 通过利用音频和视频，可以使不存在的东西可以存在。虚拟现实技术允许用户操纵屏幕上的对象，使他们能够成??为笼罩着它们的三维设置中的充分参与者。 2 Dr. Mark Fishman, professor of computer science at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A., and a leading authority on artificial intelligence and artificial reality, says virtual reality’s effect can be powerful. “Put people in a virtual room and have them walk on a tread mill. They will not want to walk into the abyss they see in front of them, even though they know perfectly well their body is in the real world. They fall right into the illusion, and the illusion is getting better and better.” Mark Fishman博士是美国佛罗里达州圣彼德堡埃克德学院的计算机科学教授，也是人工智能和人造现实的一位主要权威。他说虚拟现实的效果很强大，“让人们置身于一个虚拟的房间里，叫他们踩踏车。虽然他们十分清楚地知道自己的身体是在真实的环境里，但是他们也不愿意他们面前所能看到的万丈深渊。他们沉浸在幻觉之中，而这种幻觉正变得越来越真实。” While this technology’s most advanced applications at the moment are in entertainment such as virtual reality golf and the virtual reality arcade game rooms sprouting up all over the world, researchers say its potential is enormous. They see it impacting everything, from education to medicine and science to business and government. “The common perception of virtual reality is that it’s some kind of sophisticated computer game in an arcade”, explains Dr. Jack Goldfeather, professor of mathematics and co