Poznań, Poland

Virtual Reality and Multimedia

Bachelor's - engineer
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Virtual Reality and Multimedia at Merito Poznań

Field of studies: Computer Science
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: journalism and information
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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Short descriptions of selected modules

  • Multimedia Design

Advances in IT have made it possible to deliver audio and video content (images, sound, animation) in lots of new ways. The aim of the course is to acquaint students with tools and techniques for presentation, processing, compression, and transmission of digital images. You will learn how to apply specialized authoring software in creating, editing and processing digital multimedia content.

  • Programming of Augmented Reality Systems

Special systems that combine real world with virtual reality can be found in the entertainment industry, medical industry, marketing, prototyping, management or commerce. A good example of this technology is a virtual fitting room. The course is geared to providing students with the basics of how cutting-edge interfaces for human-tomachine communication are designed and programmed. You will learn how to design and develop augmented reality applications.

University website: www.merito.pl

Definitions and quotes

Multimedia
Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content. Multimedia contrasts with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text-only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material.
Reality
Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent, as opposed to that which is merely imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. Philosophical questions about the nature of reality or existence or being are considered under the rubric of ontology, which is a major branch of metaphysics in the Western philosophical tradition. Ontological questions also feature in diverse branches of philosophy, including the philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophical logic. These include questions about whether only physical objects are real (i.e., Physicalism), whether reality is fundamentally immaterial (e.g., Idealism), whether hypothetical unobservable entities posited by scientific theories exist, whether God exists, whether numbers and other abstract objects exist, and whether possible worlds exist.
Virtual
An item may sometimes be described as being a virtual item when it is a representation or non-tangible abstraction of the physical object, or is a functional emulation or simulation of it.
Reality
There's times to be real, and there's times to be phony. That's right, I said it, phony! You think I'm this nice in real life? Fuck that, son! That's just 'cause I'm on TV. I'd pull my balls out right now... skeet skeet skeet skeet!
Dave Chappelle Chappelle's Show season 2 ep. 6
Reality
The jnani, following the path of knowledge, always reason about the Reality saying, "not this, not this." Brahman is neither "this" nor "that"; It is neither the universe nor its living beings. Reasoning in this way, the mind becomes steady. Finally it disappears and the aspirant goes into samadhi. This is the Knowledge of Brahman. It is the unwavering conviction of the jnani that Brahman alone is real and the world is illusory. All these names and forms are illusory, like a dream. What Brahman is cannot be described. One cannot even say that Brahman is a Person. This is the opinion of the jnanis, the followers of Vedanta. But the bhaktas accept all the states of consciousness. They take the waking state to be real also. They don't think the world to be illusory, like a dream. They say that the universe is a manifestation of the God's power and glory. God has created all these — sky, stars, moon, sun, mountains, ocean, men, animals. They constitute His glory. He is within us, in our hearts. Again, He is outside. The most advanced devotees say that He Himself has become all this — the 24 cosmic principles, the universe, and all living beings. The devotee of God wants to eat sugar, and not become sugar. (All laugh.) Do you know how a lover of God feels? His attitude is: "O God, Thou art the Master, and I am Thy servant. Thou art the Mother, and I Thy child." Or again: "Thou art my Father and Mother. Thou art the Whole, and I am a part." He does not like to say, "I am Brahman." They yogi seeks to realize the Paramatman, the Supreme Soul. His ideal is the union of the embodied soul and the Supreme Soul. He withdraws his mind from sense objects and tries to concentrate on the Paramatman. Therefore, during the first stage of his spiritual discipline, he retires into solitude and with undivided attention practices meditation in a fixed posture.
But the reality is one and the same; the difference is only in name. He who is Brahman is verily Atman, and again, He is the Bhagavan. He is Brahman to the followers of the path of knowledge, Paramatman to the yogis, and Bhagavan to the lovers of God.
Ramakrishna, in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 132
Reality
Already in 1948, observations... agreed with quantum mechanics, not with local realism.
R. H. Dalitz and F. J. Duarte, John Clive Ward, Physics Today 53, 99-100 (2000).
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