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Notes on Helsinki’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 their Instagram Link Tree, I’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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XR as Spatial Media Across Disciplines

Tyler Blackman and Daniel Harley

In the early stages of an interdisciplinary collaboration that led to a new article analyzing the promotional material for Apple’s “first spatial computer,” the Apple Vision Pro (AVP), our discussions often returned to …

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A man in a yellow sweater wearing a white Apple Vision Pro headset, standing in the middle of a room. In front of him are two augmented reality windows showing a web browser (showing a hotel booking home page) and an iCloud notes folder (the open page reading: "Proposed plan for Day 1").
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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Extreme close up side on image of a person wearing Apple's Vision Pro headset. They are pressing a button on the top of the headset
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 “ultimate empathy machine” (TED, 2015), with immersive storytelling demonstrating remarkable capabilities …

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Book Review: Lisa Messeri’s “In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles”

Maxwell Foxman

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

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