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... limitations and transcend incarnate experience. Similar desires informed the mythology of the personal computer upon its debut. Yaakov Garb, credited with inventing the term “virtual reality,” called these desires “the dreams our culture has inscribed in silicon”; he critiqued the mythology surrounding...

... Chapter 5 focuses on Embodied Labs, an LA-headquartered start-up founded in 2016 that creates VR experiences for professional caregivers who work with elderly people and their families. These VR experiences are premised on the logic, critiqued in the previous chapter, that embodying another...

..., underscoring that being another can only ever be a façade and must be approached with caution. virtual reality Nonny de la Peña University of Southern California Sundance empathy machine Chapter 5 focuses on Embodied Labs, an LA-headquartered start-up founded in 2016 that creates VR experiences...

... that reconfigure agents’ biomediatized bodies by altering tastes and creating desires. Malls also foster virtual travel via spatiotemporal experiences of modernity. However, agents’ aspirations regarding global cosmopolitanism are frequently misaligned with the poor material conditions in which they live...

... examine a site of khwajasara 's present/future-making. At this site, khwajasara are literally made part of another, virtual world, but find ways to disrupt or “rewire” such transformation. Third, based on divergent khwajasara experiences of temporality and distemporalization as well as a range...

... and renewed Silicon Valley interest. Many of the “VR for good” experiences produced in the 2010s were designed for privileged viewers to take on the perspective of marginalized individuals. This chapter unpacks the racial dynamics at the heart of many of these empathy experiences, underscoring that being...

... Chapter 2 suggests that the experience of being in LA unlocks some of VR’s more ineffable qualities. The architectural façades of the movie set and theme park extend throughout the city, offering a glimpse of other places and other times while moving through the urban landscape. Building...

... in the image itself inasmuch as he conflates the topographical description with the representation of an idea of Venice as it emerges from his own lived experience. The View in its virtual spatial framework, therefore, encapsulates the transitive relationship between the artist and his habitat; it reflects...

... to simulate, or alternately render “unplayable,” experiences of disorientation, alienation, and marginalization, especially in regard to racial, queer, and trans elements of play. The game makers thus ask how games, in giving virtual proximity to Asia, can also allow new and critical ways of reinhabiting...

... virtual reality Chapter 2 suggests that the experience of being in LA unlocks some of VR’s more ineffable qualities. The architectural façades of the movie set and theme park extend throughout the city, offering a glimpse of other places and other times while moving through the urban landscape...

... depends on the immobility and emplacement of BPO agents. Their mobility is at once physical, virtual, temporal, and social. They are also emplaced and rendered immobile due to their class, race, and national location. Agents experience immobility and “stuckedness” as entrapment, stagnancy, and fading...

... to color film. In 2018, a small branch of this famed company—the Technicolor Experience Center (TEC)—was trying to lead a transition in the entertainment and special effects industry to VR. Numerous frictions were brought to the surface in attempting this transition, which can be partly attributed to VR...

... experiments. This chapter argues that modelers must rely extensively on embodied knowledge because of the indirect nature vision in protein crystallography. This chapter offers an account of pedagogy and training in a protein crystallography laboratory, tracking students as they cultivate an “ethos...

... on games as opportunities to simulate, or alternately render “unplayable,” experiences of disorientation, alienation, and marginalization, especially in regard to racial, queer, and trans elements of play. The game makers thus ask how games, in giving virtual proximity to Asia, can also allow new...

... “SEA” is a collage poem based on the author’s own writing and fragments of texts encountered in the course of his research on art, storytelling, and perceptions of long-term environmental change in the Orkney Islands. It seeks to evoke a time-space of virtual simultaneity and coexistence...

... triggered and spread identification with consumer lifestyles across the region due to cross-border watching. Commercials helped even out the time differences that existed among countries of the region and within Europe in an experience of virtual simultaneity. Television advertising did not simply encourage...

... and historically coherent self, the metaphor is often employed to justify the fragmentation of experience and temporal disorientation. A case study that I use is the reconstruction and gentrification of Beijing’s Qianmen district in 2008. Buildings, billboards, and digital screens have formed together a contiguous...

... This chapter makes the case against a race- or ethnicity-based model of organizing in favor of one that is based on a class-based, economic model of the experiences Asians in America have faced. It argues that identity-based organizing is important but not enough. For a truly progressive Asian...