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 …
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 …
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 …
Book Review: Lisa Messeriās āIn the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angelesā
Maxwell Foxman
Despite virtual realityās (VR) widespread availability (and lower price) since 2016, much literature surrounding it remains relatively speculative…
Exploring āproper distanceā in virtual reality for humanitarian practice
Bimbisar Irom
Emerging technologies are increasingly being incorporated into humanitarian practice by non-governmental organizations, governments, and leading institutions. Such new technologies…
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 āultimate empathy machineā (TED, 2015), with immersive storytelling demonstrating remarkable capabilities …
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 …