Isn't It A Weird Concept! ( Archived) (76)

More so than ever , i am hoping that you are right !

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Its ok my spell checker puts in words where they shouldn't and I'm too lazy to proof read lol.

Another take n VR.


There’s a growing body of research on how virtual reality can be used to cultivate empathy—and a number of organizations are putting it into practice. The United Nations is rolling out VR initiatives intended to help viewers empathize with Syrian refugees, or a family in Gaza, walls charred and stippled by gunfire and bombs. Other projects from University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies insert users in a realistic combat simulation to help them better understand the experiences of loved ones who are suffering from PTSD after serving in the military. The sum effect is “a deeper sense of what their loved one has gone through,” USC’s Albert “Skip” Rizzo told the radio show Here & Now. VR is also used in police training, to simulate interactions that require split-second decision making.

This new research adds to earlier findings about VR as a catalyst for personal accountability, able to convince people to modify behaviors even after they resurface in the real world. In 2011, researchers at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, led by professor Jeremy Bailenson, asked participants to maneuver a vibrating, haptic “chainsaw” to down a tree in a simulated forest. After wielding the tool, the VR group user 20 percent fewer napkins to mop up a spill than the participants who read a passage describing the tree being cut.

VR stitches up that lag between action and consequence, Ahn told The Guardian, illuminating “really solid causal relationships—this is what you do today, and here’s what might happen 100 years down the road.”

In that sense, virtual reality can make the link between users and the larger world not only perceptible, but inescapable. That’s partly because VR straddles and blurs the lines between passive and active entertainment, and between fantasy and observed experience. When our avatars are the ones sawing down trees, an issue like conservation is no longer an invisible things happening in a far-off world, too distant to goad us into tweaking our behaviors.

“We can’t get everyone to read scientific papers about climate change, so this shortcuts all of that,” Bailenson told Popular Science. “We want people to walk out of there feeling empathy and wanting to act.”

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What's that got to do with the price of eggs

You haven't even answered my post Bogfart