Namely, he discusses Clouds Over Sidra, a collaboration with VR director Gabo Arora set in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. The director-turned-businessman also describes his work creating immersive VR films, primarily about the struggles of people living in war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of the world. Milk characterizes his preoccupation working with film as one based on empathy, stating that “.film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.” Image: Avatars of Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and head of social virtual reality Rachel Franklin superimposed on a 360-degree video of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017.Ĭhris Milk, the founder and CEO of virtual reality tech company Within, and the co-founder of virtual reality production company Here Be Dragons, gave a TED Talk in 2015 entitled “How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine.” In the video of the talk, he described his work trying to create VR experiences that truly “immerse” players, encapsulating them fully in a simulation and making them feel like they’re there, as first-hand witnesses.
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Part II dives into the adjacent world of Virtual Reality. In Part I, Polansky detailed the pop ularization of “empathy” as a marketing buzzword in the games industry.
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In this three part series originally published in German by WASD, Lana Polansky explores the history and use of “empathy” in games since 2008.