“virtual reality is an empathy machine!” says nonny dela pena and with each project of her unique approach to immersive journalism she proves anew: this technology can be used for so many more things other than simply blowing stuff up!
enjoy the show:
and here is some more reading/viewing material:
– virtual guantanamo write-up in vanity fair and DER SPIEGEL
– bavc [where everything started!!!]
– mel slater at icrea university barcelona
– maria sanchez-vives at her own lab
– below: thai phan, the first dude who made sl work with kinect
![hunger in la [pic courtesy of sundance]](https://draxfiles.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/hunger-la-1.jpg)
![hunger in la in-world [pic courtesy of sundance]](https://draxfiles.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/hunger-la-2.jpg)
– oscar raby’s “assent”:
![de niro with googles [at tribeca film fest, pic courtesy of pbs]](https://draxfiles.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/deniro.jpg)
– sl11b celebration = our live show 6/22 at 1pm
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Maya Paris from SL brought this to my attention: BBC is letting you hang out in their newsroom via Oculus…is that immersive journalism too? 🙂 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Virtual-Reality-the-future-of-TV
I don’t know if it’s related but back in 2008 Nobody Fugazi in conjunction with the ALCU organised an event regarding G’tmo, the location looks similar to the one in the video but may well have been a different place.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080314002810/http://www.your2ndplace.com/node/843
It’s a shame there’s not an archive of old Second Life sims for us to look up!
Ahhhh there was so much vibrancy around these things in SL at some point – Seaton Hall Law School doing stuff [ http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/09/11/seton-hall/ ] and PBS etc etc etc…where are they now? Little blast from past here: my ugly haircut on PBS FRontline = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ypEpspqYY
And a nice little piece on Nonny’s work from the BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28661220