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... Chapter 1 offers a brief history of the Los Angeles region in order to shed light on contemporary virtual reality practices. The current impulse by VR innovators to offer the technology as a tool for repairing reality is framed against more than a century of utopian thinking in LA. In addition...

...Fantasy of Place Chapter 1 offers a brief history of the Los Angeles region in order to shed light on contemporary virtual reality practices. The current impulse by VR innovators to offer the technology as a tool for repairing reality is framed against more than a century of utopian thinking...

... The introduction presents the community and ideas at the heart of this anthropological study. When virtual reality reemerged in the mid-2010s, it was praised for its ability to elicit empathy and aid social justice causes. This idea of VR as an empathy machine germinated in Los Angeles, where...

..., 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...

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