THE VIRTUAL ESTATE AND ITS LEGATEES

The virtual world, the newest technological hustle, is contagiously spreading across the globe promising an alternate digital world appearing to be as real as the reality, with the echoes of the past, the taste of the present and a whiff of the future, all crafted cleverly into the creation of this lifelike magical realism that we know today as the immersive virtual reality.

Imagine!  A cluster of pixels creating such stupendous suspension of belief!

But is it only yet another technological success story embedded with some serious technical expertise and coding chops, or there exists, other claimants who would sweat out their multifarious talent from various disciplines to enable the execution of this photo-realism?

The answer is a resounding Yes! The architects, the designers, the landscape artists, the road and transport consultants, the art directors, the content writers, the visualizers, the historians, the story tellers, the educators and so many more such experts chip in with their calibrated contributions to create this pixelated panorama which, evidently, is a complex jigsaw puzzle! The narrative, the simulation and the visuals are synthesized by these various experts to create experiences that, oh so convincingly, approximate the physical reality.

So, here’s a shout out to all these wizards who bring in their own special bit of magic to churn out this realistic style of imaginary! Please do come forward and stake your claim on to this new world.

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