CRWR 213 Lecture 5: VR/AR V
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Story about how total immersion in another culture can change our understanding of family & love. Game engine powers beautiful paper-craft representation of nitobe. Users literally construct environment from single leaf to a beautiful, immense garden. Created by paisley smith, jam3, nfb digital studio. Researchers are concerned about influence of vr on human brain. Many psychology experiments demonstrated plasticity of human mind & unconscious molding by its environment (e. g. stanford. None of these experiments comes close to amount of environmental control that"ll hypothetically be possible as vr systems become more ubiquitous systems become more ubiquitous. Handful of recent experiments have shown that vr experiences have lasting effects even after users have left virtual environment. Technologies are sometimes used in ways not intended by their creators. E. g. military applications for vr such as novel torture device/means of decreasing soldier"s empathy for enemy. Where commercial vr user"s activity intersects w/ internet. Reading: chapter 1 - new literacies in age of participatory culture.
