{"id":778,"date":"2025-03-24T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T10:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/?p=778"},"modified":"2025-05-13T21:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:44:39","slug":"watched-why-vr-does-not-promote-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/watched-why-vr-does-not-promote-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watched &#8211; Why VR Does Not Promote Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This video essay was recommended watching for our VR session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reflections <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>I think the main issue that the video essay is describing is the conflation of creating 3D visual audio environments with human to human emotional relatedness <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I like the way they compared VR to film (another visual audio medium) and talked about how different viewpoints and perspectives in film are empathy generating in a way that taking a fixed but interactive point of view may not be.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s also interested to think about the potential unintended consequences of trying to create empathy for people in situations using VR &#8211; i.e. when they talk about disability and how some VR simulators could be said to be perpetuating oppressive or disablist situations rather than contributing to better understandings or ways of thinking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One of the messages I&#8217;ve been taking away from discussion about the limitations of VR tech is the idea that the body is more than it&#8217;s eyes and ears. Meaning making is more complicated than what we are seeing and story telling, as a core way of us making sense of the world, needs as much consideration in a VR context as it would do in any other visual audio medium. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reference <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Eitzen, D. (2020). Why VR Does Not Promote Empathy. <em>Deleted Journal<\/em>, [online] 7(2). doi:https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16995\/intransition.11281.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u200c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video essay was recommended watching for our VR session. Reflections Reference Eitzen, D. (2020). 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