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I think Zuckerberg and everyone involved with VR at Facebook have been overly effected by Chris Milk's TED Talk about how VR can be the "Ultimate Empathy Machin
by ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
I think Zuckerberg and everyone involved with VR at Facebook have been overly effected by Chris Milk's TED Talk about how VR can be the "Ultimate Empathy Machine".
The arguments in that talk are compelling, and they probably felt they were doing a great humanitarian service. I don't think they are bad people at all, but they are definitely in a bubble where a certain awareness of the humanitarian potential for VR has made them blind to the perception of the average person.
https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_milk_how_virtual_reality_can_create_the_ultimate_empathy_machine https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_milk_how_virtual_reality_can...
- elicash 9y agoThat makes me wonder... If rather than viewing it as a YouTube video I had instead watched their "tour" in VR, would I STILL have been immediately struck by it being tone-deaf? I think I still would be, because the whole point is to have actual conversations with people who are affected by the humanitarian crisis.