Unit 6 Portfolio Project - Ethical Issues in Online Virtual Worlds Develop compe

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Unit 6 Portfolio Project - Ethical Issues in Online Virtual Worlds Develop competence in a virtual environment and explore ethical issues pertaining to virtual reality. This activity builds familiarity and confidence in the use of virtual environment:s such as those found in contemporary online games, as well as a growing number of practical simulation applications in business, industry, and other organizations. The Unit 6 project also provides an opportunity to examine and explore ethical issues relating to virtual reality. Students may complete this activity using the free online virtual world Second Life (secondlife.com). Begin by addressing the questions given below 1 How is entry to and participation in the virtual environment achieved (e.g., software, account registration)? 2. What are the basic controls for movement and visualization? 3. What are the tools, methods, and conventions of communication? 4. What are the techniques and capabilities for avatar modification? 5. What opportunities exist for advanced participation (e.g. commerce, competitive interaction, design, and building)? 6. What are the ethical issues relating to each of the following: a. Age representation/verification and the control of access to age- b. Intellectual property/copyright - are intellectual properties (music, c. Online commerce....Linden currency can be purchased and exchanged for d. Other? inappropriate material...are existing controls adequate? copyrights, images, characters, etc.) being improperly used? real money...should economic activity in virtual worlds be taxed?

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Question 1

For entry and participating in the virtual environment account needs to be created. When you click for creating a new account it will ask for choosing a character and then after that you have to choose a username. After that we have to enter a complete details like the email, DOB, Password and a security question for remembering the password in case we forget it. After putting all this only we can able to create an account.

Question 2

The basic movement control help the character to have a generic human movement. The visualization is quite impressive .The visualization depends on how good is your system hardware .As this will help render the proper pixel for each image.

Question 3

The interaction is like when bumped into each other (the other characters) then it can initiate a conversation. Also it can interact with the available objects in the virtual environment.

Question 4

There are different we can modify the Aavatar.It can be customized fully staring from hair style, color, clothes and all.

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