CURRENT ISSUE
Virtual reality: immersion and empathy, guest edited by Brooke Belisle and Paul Roquet
In this issue:
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Virtual reality: immersion and empathy
Virtual/reality: how to tell the difference
Janet H. Murray looks beyond the predictions made at advent of VR on its effects, and attempts to situate VR as an emerging medium that continues on the course towards developing new media conventions to support sustained interaction and immersion, based on an active creation of belief.
Empathy and nausea: virtual reality and Jordan Wolfson’s Real Violence
Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness analyze ‘Real Violence’, a VR piece by artist Jordan Wolfson, aiming to identify and inhabit the complex contradictions present in any discussion of empathy, transgressive confrontation, and the social function of art and VR today.
Feeling good about feeling bad: virtuous virtual reality and the automation of racial empathy
Lisa Nakamura problematizes the branding of VR as an anti-racist and anti-sexist technology through the examination of titles created by white and European producers