Virtual Empathy: Does VR have the power to make us care more?
Human connection
“Intimacy has some important reminders behind it about human connection, and the ways in which you discover them are some of the most unique and interesting I’ve yet seen in VR… Intimacy gives you a virtual mask to hide under, an identity to assume, and then lets you take it all off and sit and have an honest conversation about what you thought about your other costumed accomplice, and the results will surprise you”
Jamie Feltham, Upload
A podcast about the creative technology
South West Technology Network
In Focus: Communication
“[In My Shoes] has the ability of this to really touch home and change the way physicians think and the way they care for their patients.”
Chris Benecchi, UCB , Practical Neurology
Framing immersion
How VR & AR are used as a communicative tool.
Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol
‘Empathy Activism’ and bodying difference in postdigital culture
Jane Gauntlett’s In My Shoes and BeAnotherLab’s The Machine to Be Another.
Liam Jarvis RHUL
Feeling someone else’s body
Self deception and the paradox of immersive experiences.
My work is featured in this research study,
Liam Jarvis RHUL
Immersive content for future audiences
In My Shoes is featured in this research study.
Virtual Realities - Immersive Documentaries Encounters
In My Shoes: Dancing with Myself is featured in this research study.
Lead Research Organisation: University of Bristol
Department Name: Computer Science