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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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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
Virtual reality and refugee crises: Impact of “Clouds Over Sidra”

Porismita Borah, Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Di Mu, Anastasia Vishnevskaya, Bimbisar Irom, Ron Price, Onur Ramazan and Yoon Joo Lee

While the Syrian refugee crisis has elicited varying responses from…

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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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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
Exploring ‘proper distance’ 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…

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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 “ultimate empathy machine” (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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