Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Metaverse and the Wrinkle in Time
Paul Waldman: I don't think it's some kind of hidden strategy, but I do see as it's taken up more in the kind of West Coast sort of California context at the time. And then Japan, it's a slightly different direction. How do we make this applicable to people's everyday life context that really emerges in there? So I try and trace this kind of gradual... Yeah. Several stages of retranslation of the term,. The word virtual reality in its ambiguities allows for that kind of shift in context to take place because nobody knows exactly what it means for quite a long time and still today.
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