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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…