Is Virtual Reality The Ultimate Empathy Machine?
Empathy
Empathy is the experience of understanding another person’s condition from their perspective. This is also known as putting yourself in their shoes to feel what they are feeling. Empathy is also known to increase prosocial behaviors.
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Others are using the technology to influence people’s perceptions in other ways. Film producer Chris Milk worked with the United Nations to create a virtual reality film, Clouds Over Sidra, that puts you inside a Syrian refugee camp and follows a day in the life of 12-year-old Sidra, a girl who has lived there for 18 months with thousands of other refugees. Wearing Oculus Rift, movie watchers might feel as if they’re sitting right next to Sidra: move your head and see children walking, turning their heads to look back at you.
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