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Notes on Helsinkiā€™s Digital Fashion Week

Tyla Stevenson

In late August of 2024, Helsinki Fashion Week (HFW) was held on online, world-building platform VLGE. Still accessible via theirĀ Instagram Link Tree, Iā€™ve explored up to 40 different digital fashion exhibitions. When done right …

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A young Rohingya woman sitting in front of a backdrop of a refugee camp and the words 'I Am Rohingya'.
Augmentations of control: Posthumanism, producers, and virtual performers

Caitlyn Ng Man Chuen

While virtual performers have existed prior to the rise of mixed reality, progressions in augmented reality technologies have allowed such performers to appear on stage in …

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Black and white image of a woman in a VR headset in the foreground, with a neurtral expression. In the background there is a man in a lab coat next to an early computer. He is looking at the woman in the foreground
Fiction references in extended reality news: the Matrix is a good thing?

Emma Kaylee Graves-Sandriman

Many science fiction narratives present cautionary tales of technology, particularly when it comes to extended reality (XR; including virtual, augmented and mixed reality). My recent …

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Book Review: Lisa Messeriā€™s ā€œIn the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angelesā€

Maxwell Foxman

Despite virtual realityā€™s (VR) widespread availability (and lower price) since 2016, much literature surrounding it remains relatively speculative

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Left: A book cover with a pink background, text reading "In the Land of the Unreal Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles," and a person wearing a virtual reality head-mounted display in the foreground; Right: A woman with brown hair and a black jacket.
Woman sitting wearing Apple's Vision Pro headset looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. The headset covers her eyes, but on the headset is a live video feed of where her eyes are looking
Can virtual reality innovate the future of Chinese humanities education?

Yu Shan

Despite ongoing conflicts across culture, geopolitics and economics, the challenges faced globally within humanities education are similar. Government funding cuts for …

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Parasocial intergroup contact in virtual reality: The importance of presence in 360-degree videos for reducing prejudice

Nili Steinfeld

Virtual reality (VR) has been hailed as the ā€œultimate empathy machineā€ (TED, 2015), with immersive storytelling demonstrating remarkable capabilities …

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Virtual reality as an empathy machine and its discontent

Sandra Ponzanesi

Artificial intelligence (AI) innovations and virtual reality (VR) technologies have been increasingly used to develop computer-generated simulations that place viewers in three-dimensional environments …

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