Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Playing With Scalability in VR
There's a long history of thinking about innovations in fiction as related to scalability, like naturalism. When the scale of a virtual object is just a property in the game engine, you can slide up and down. You can really play with shrinking the size of the view as a protagonist between human size or insect size or giant. Maybe I can ask you about the kind of moral valences. One aspect of that is certain kinds of moral panic that you see around the Walkman and that you see now around VR. Do you see that kind of thing in Japan as well? Not as much. We connected with what's sometimes called the tech lash in the US context of being more critical
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