What is Virtual Reality and What should it be?

Virtual Reality is the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.

If 4 or 5 years ago you told me that today you can buy augmented virtual reality devices, i wouldn't believe a word you said. But "soon" we're going to be able to buy our own virtual reality devices, we've seen how the oculus rift works, Microsoft is also making their own virtual reality device called Microsoft Hololens.

Video Game Addiction

What is Video Game Addiction?

Video Game Addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, which does not involve use of an intoxicating drug and is very similar to pathological gambling.  Video game addiction has also been referred to as video game overuse, pathological or compulsive/excessive use of computer games and/or video games.

How Can Someone Get Addicted To it?

They usually use gaming as a way to escape from everyday life, these type of gamers avoiding problem by playing games, which in turns interferes with their lives because they're so busy playing game.

Joe Hilgard, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the MU College of Arts

and Science, did a studies that supports the claim that MMORPG's are the most addictive genre of video games.

"The games provide opportunities for players to advance levels, to join teams and to play with others. In addition, the games provide enormous fantasy worlds that gamers can disappear into for hours at a time and forget about their problems. MMORPG's may be triple threats for encouraging pathological game use because they present all three risk factors to gamers." says Joe Hilgard.

Violence in Video Games

Video games today are a lot more violent than a game created in the 1980's. and a research published in the JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the American Medical association by researchers in Iowa state university and the national institute of education in Singapore, found hints that violent video games may set kids up to react in a more hostile and violent way.

3,034 boys and girls in the third, fourth, seventh, and eighth grade were asked detailed question about their video games habit 3 times over a period of 2 years.
overall, their aggressive and violent behavior declined slightly throughout the studies, but that's because children tend to act less aggressively as they grow older.

but a closer look at kids who play more hours of violent video games per week revealed increases in aggressive and violent behavior than the other.

But studies like this often fail to account for other factors that can contribute to aggression, such as violence in the home, abuse, and mental illness.

The point of this continued debate, though, is that not all players of violent video games are gonna commit violent crimes.

Gender In Video Games

According to a study released by the Entertainment Software Association, Adult women occupy the largest demographic in the game industry.
Women over 18 years old make up 36% of the gaming population, followed by adult men at 35%.

Sadly enough, the gaming industry haven't caught up with these numbers,

sexism still runs through the gaming industry, using women as an object rather than a human.

in the last of us ellie are portrayed as an object the player uses to pass through an obstacle.

in super mario, princess peach are portrayed as a damsel in distress in which the player must rescue.