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Can VR be used to cultivate connection with real world places?
Will the development of virtual worlds impact how we perceive, enjoy, and look after real-world places? As a lover of nature, and planet Earth, there is an instinctive part of me, that walks cautiously, even as a VR producer myself. Donning virtual reality (VR) goggles and shutting out our senses from what is immediately in front of us, could, in a very literal sense, make us more “blinkard”. There is an unnaturalness to it, a total potential disconnection with reality. If, for example, you can quite literally ‘fly’ in the virtual world, what would encourage you instead to simply ‘take a stroll’ in the real world? If everything can be recreated digitally, what drive will there be, to look after it physically? Is it a possible future, that people will not travel in the real world at all? There is a potential, futuristic, dystopian scenario, that writers and film makers have already begun to hypothetically explore, that the virtual wo...
22 September 2023
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