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Top Comments: Notebook #90: Virtual reality gone too far? [1]
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Date: 2023-09-29
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Today has been one of those days where everything has been a bit discombobulated. The volunteer schedule at the Center shifted yet again so I wasn’t needed. I was delayed at work due to an highly unfortunate incident.
And just when things seemed to settle down and I was preparing to write my Top Comments entry tonight, one of my best friends called; we had been playing intermittent phone tag for a week or so now...so I answered the call.
Normally, I do value promptness and will throw a bit of a tantrum at everyone not being on time when I am (95% of the time it’s internal). I am also old enough and mature enough to understand that sh*t happens. And I have a tendency to be more forgiving nowadays.
I didn’t even have time to thoroughly research this story from El País in English.
Fed up with shocking but ineffective headlines, the couple considered how to communicate the terror that victims experience. That was the seed of Ponte en mi Piel, or Put Yourself in my Skin, a virtual reality project that allows viewers to experience first-hand discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. The couple conducted research to create the three stories that make up the project, reflecting what a lesbian teenager, a gay couple and a transgender person may face on a daily basis. The 12-minute experience goes through three stages of each character’s life to show viewers that hate is as timeless as it is impactful. [...] Once you put on the virtual reality glasses, it is impossible not to feel the panic of a lesbian teenager or the helplessness when witnessing a couple being beaten for being gay. Those feelings are universal. However, after months of touring, Porteiro believes that the capacity for empathy among people between the ages of 60 and 80 is greater than among young people. “I don’t know how to explain it. Without sounding pessimistic, I think there is a regression.” To combat that point of view, Porteiro and Ramos want to take the project further. While they offer the experience to schools, institutes, city councils and companies, they are looking for a way to reach Apple and turn it into a mixed-reality experience.
I looked for but could not find adequate videos that conveyed the project to me although I did find a couple of untranslated videos about.
I do know that when I’ve written about my own experiences with LGBT discrimination and gay bashing, I do try to relate such instances as graphically as possible.
On the other hand, at least in American society, I could also see a tool such as this type of first hand experience being adapted for some sort of game on websites that would do that sort of thing (e.g. 4chan)
I don’t know if I need a virtual reality experience of the type of discrimination that, say, a woman goes through.
I do see some benefit in this type of experience, though, if the experience is taken seriously so...I don’t know...what do you think?
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