Impacts of Virtual Reality on Waste Management

This article explores the impacts of virtual reality on waste management, including planning, visualizing cognitive behavior, handling dangerous waste, regulation and ethics, and disruption. It discusses how virtual reality can facilitate waste recycling and treatment, encourage community participation, and help manage e-waste. It also highlights the challenges and hindrances to virtual technology in waste management.

IMPACTS OF VIRTUAL REALITY ON WASTE MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
Research......................................................................................................................................................3
Brainstorming..............................................................................................................................................3
Planning...................................................................................................................................................3
Visualizing the cognitive behavior of people...........................................................................................4
Handling of dangerous waste...................................................................................................................4
Regulation and Ethics..................................................................................................................................5
Disruption....................................................................................................................................................5
Diagram representation............................................................................................................................7
Video Script.................................................................................................................................................8
References.................................................................................................................................................10
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Research
. Virtual technology is a branch of industrial technology that uses waste materials to make new
products. Literally virtually reality also means making things in our computers that do not really
exist(Cohen,2014). Currently in the world the extent of metropolitan has greatly increased from
time as a result there is rapid growth in megacities. This has created many challenges to the
environment. This challenges include air pollution, unnecessary disposal of waste products and
land pollution. All this are hazardous to the environment and their effect increase from time to
time. Virtual reality a new arising technology has come with new ways of managing the disposed
wastes .The following are some of the impacts of the technology to waste management.
Brainstorming
Planning
The new virtual technology has been adopted by some architects, which is mostly used in
planning it facilitates waste recycling and treatment. This can be observed in Newyork where a
company developed a prospect software with plugins enabling the architects to convert their files
into 3D virtual. This is seen through the virtual headset for music. All this resources are the
products of the waste materials which are brought back to life through recycling.
More so through virtual reality encourage a great population to participate in the community
activities ,making the community to have the know-how on how to manage different resources
through making right decisions (Nonak,2008). It leads to a creative and informed outcome of the
population which will the need and how to conserver the environment through recycling and
reuse of waste products.
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Visualizing the cognitive behavior of people
The outline and examination of psychological conduct of individuals in urban/open spaces
regularly require an awesome commitment from various controls, for example, engineers,
therapists, IT masters, and information experts(Johnson,2016). Native intellectual is the
investigation of individuals’ interaction with the environment. This science plans to blend the
information and data on urban outline systems and brain science to examine and recognize the
human conduct and understand the urban issues through man. These days, investigations of
human conduct utilizing enormous information are winding up additional on-request, especially
regarding the idea of brilliant, manageable city plan(Mowshowitz,2008). One of the information
sources used to research the worldly spatial example of human exercises out in the open spaces is
cell phone information. In light of the information got from SMS records, it was discovered that
human conduct takes after a power law appropriation with a power example between. The
records also showed that many human beings do not know how to manage waste generated most
of them just dispose it without knowing what it can be recycled to. Virtual reality resolve the
Handling of dangerous waste
Through virtual reality technology there are many firms that have been developed to deal with
recycling of poisonous waste such that they are not realized into the environment (Cohen,2014).
A Canadian company deals with converting the traditional paper work instructions into Smart
instructions such the users are immersed into animated intuitive, 3D computer generated imagery
that overlays on the real world. The software allows people to create there on instructions hence
very easy to
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Regulation and Ethics
Virtual technology strives to improve the environment from now and then through waste
management and providing knowledge to people on how they will handle waste materials they
produced .There are factors that hinder there terms of service to the environment. Many people
are resistance to the knowledge given to them by the technology .People dispose waste materials
carelessly instead of disposing materials at one point for easy collection. This gives the recycling
company extra work of collecting the waste materials to be recycled and even if they collect
some materials goes uncollected hence they will never be recycled. More manufacturing
companies’ persistence in producing new goods with the use of raw materials instead of
recycling the used materials. This leads into existence of more waste materials into the
environment that cannot be recycled at a first rate than those being produced by the users.
Usage of traditional way to get rid of the waste materials .A large population burn waste
materials as a way of getting rid of the materials. When some materials are burn they produce
toxic gas to the environment which causes more harm than good. Luck of knowledge to repair
malfunctioning electronic components make users unable to repair them and reuse them hence
disposing them to the environment .
Disruption
The notion of waste management has increased impressive footing lately as a dream for
animating and supporting advancement and financial development and for giving maintainable
and productive urban/rural administration and improvement. Critical parts of the world’s idea are
information representation and determining. VR empowers specialists to play out a continuous
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examination of various situations and helps governments, partners, and groups to know about the
natural and social effects of their choices. VR applies enormous effects on the fate of urban
outline, especially savvy city plan and waste management. The utilization of Internet-based VR
upgrades open investment in arranging and outline(Gummesson,,2011). It likewise gives a stage
to originators to add to a venture paying little mind to their area. This paper talks about the
conceivable advantages of VR for effectively picturing shrewd city plan and reenactments.
Essential point incorporates the capacity to be completely drenched into speaks to true conditions
utilizing of waste materials. It is proposed with this technology in future we shall have a clear
and clean environment where everybody will be managing wastes as fast as producing them
through recycling and reusing(Klopfer,2008).The following shows some of the processes of the
VR technology evaluation that helps in the management of resources.
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Diagram representation
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Virtual technology
Objectives
defined
Objectives in
3D
Deciding realism
VR with
environment
VR evaluation
VR modification
Modifying VR
Improving
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Video Script
Industry technology simply means use of engineering and manufacturing technologies to make
production of products simpler and easier. Virtual technology a branch of industry technology
uses waste materials to make new products. Virtually reality also means making things in our
computers that do not really exist. Currently in the world the extent of metropolitan has greatly
increased from time as a result there is rapid growth in megacities. This has created many
challenges to the environment. Virtual reality a new arising technology has come with new ways
of managing the disposed wastes .Some of the impacts of the technology are as follows.
Virtual reality has an emerging technology helps information technology manage their e-waste.
By giving them the knowledge on green computing that deals with eco-friendly using of
computer resources so that they cannot cause harm to the environment. Virtual reality also
unlocks the much vaunted circular economy that is not extremely obvious. This is by helping
everybody realize the importance of each and every product before is turned into wastes
More so through virtual reality technology there are many firms that have been developed to deal
with recycling of poisonous waste such that they are not realized into the environment
Many industries through virtual reality have designed smart helmet that uses an optical
transparent straightforward show and different cameras, warm imaging and an inertial estimation
unit (IMU) that computes the head protector's relative position and enables the gadget to
incorporate with the world around the user. Virtual reality teaches has that instead of disposing
some materials like broken TVS we should repair them and reuse them.
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Some technologies like those dealing with health discourage recycling of products with the claim
that it is a health harzard.Other industries also continue manufacturing new products without
seeing the need of recycling the used products this is a hinder to virtual technology.
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