A path can be a route or a distance.
Trajectory is a term originating from the French word trajet . The concept refers to the distance traveled between two places and the action of completing said journey.
For example: “In the second part of the journey, we will border Lake Farrupo as we approach the top of Lawytt Hill,” “The bullet, on its path, went through the glass and grazed the child's head before embedding itself in the wall.” , “The path of the ball was deflected by a defender, who saved the team” .
Different uses of the term journey
From this definition as distance or route , the notion of path can be used in different ways. In this way, if we say that you have to make a journey of 80 kilometers to get from a city X to a city Y , we will be indicating the distance that exists between both locations.
In a similar sense, in the previous example it could have been indicated that a tourist who left city X for city Y began his journey. That is to say: the term can not only be used as a synonym for distance , but also for path , trip or route .
A displacement
All moving bodies can make journeys. Just as a person traveling travels a distance, so does a ball that was propelled by a soccer player, a stone that is thrown into a lake or a flower pot that falls from a balcony.
It should be noted, therefore, that a journey can be traveled through a conscious or voluntary movement (walking from the kitchen to the bedroom or traveling by car from the office to the home), but it can also be the result of the force of gravity. (a book that falls from a shelf).
Technology allows virtual journeys.
Virtual journey
The concept of virtual journey or trip refers to the representation of a route through a video recording or a computer-generated animation, with three-dimensional graphics. Thanks to the Atlas that was part of Microsoft 's Encarta package, a popular digital encyclopedia that the computing giant published from 1993 to 2009 , many Windows users were able to experience the first versions of these interesting journeys from the comfort of home, which Today they are easily accessible and can offer much greater realism.
Nowadays, thanks to technologies such as virtual reality , which, although it has existed for many years, has only recently become profitable, it is possible to enjoy incredible virtual journeys by land, air or sea. An example that does not require large investments is the Panorama View application, available for Nintendo 's Wii U console; For little money, it offers interactive videos that allow you to get to know cities, walk through a carnival in Rio de Janeiro or paraglide with birds, observing the world around you with total freedom.
Thanks to the technology used to record these videos, which captures almost the entire scene, it is possible to rotate the camera while viewing it, moving the control (which includes a 6.2-inch screen), as if it were a small window into another reality.
Many companies are working on various experiments and products related to virtual reality, and the most advanced ones will make it difficult to distinguish between a real ride and a computer-generated one. Thanks to the combination of technologies that currently keep us in communication with the world around us and video capture, we are already slowly building a digital representation of our planet, and sometimes we spend more time on it than on the authentic one.