{"id":769,"date":"2016-09-25T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/?page_id=769"},"modified":"2016-10-03T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:16:49","slug":"readings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/assignments\/readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Readings: the discourse around virtual reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/09\/1fAHHJg-N492ixbxujHEDrw.jpeg\" alt=\"1fahhjg-n492ixbxujhedrw\" width=\"2000\" height=\"857\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-770\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/09\/1fAHHJg-N492ixbxujHEDrw.jpeg 2000w, http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/09\/1fAHHJg-N492ixbxujHEDrw-300x129.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/09\/1fAHHJg-N492ixbxujHEDrw-768x329.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/09\/1fAHHJg-N492ixbxujHEDrw-1024x439.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/09\/1fAHHJg-N492ixbxujHEDrw-1200x514.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Due Monday October 3rd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read these two texts and post a response below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cultronix.eserver.org\/chesher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colonizing Virtual Reality: Construction of the Discourse of Virtual Reality, 1984-1992<\/a> by Chris Chesher (1994)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@blaurel\/what-is-virtual-reality-77b876d829ba#.trlk3mezb\">What Is Virtual Reality?<\/a> by Brenda Laurel (2016)<\/p>\n<p>Some starting points:<\/p>\n<p>Are some of the narratives around the first wave of Virtual Reality persisting today? Are there new narratives and tropes surrounding contemporary VR?<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of other technologies that embraced the same tropes since the early &#8217;90s (frontier myth, making history, inevitability, coming from the margins&#8230;)?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of metaphors and analogies could\/should be used to talk about VR today (if any)?<\/p>\n<p>Respond to any of the quotes that are not extensively unpacked in the paper. E.g.:<br \/>\n&#8220;My idea of virtual reality is that, in the long run, it&#8217;s going to shut down television.&#8221; -Jaron Lanier<br \/>\n&#8220;Virtual reality can be an extension of a tendency in western capitalist societies to commodify human experience&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due Monday October 3rd Read these two texts and post a response below: Colonizing Virtual Reality: Construction of the Discourse of Virtual Reality, 1984-1992 by Chris Chesher (1994) What Is Virtual Reality? by Brenda Laurel (2016) Some starting points: Are some of the narratives around the first wave of Virtual Reality persisting today? Are there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/assignments\/readings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Readings: the discourse around virtual reality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":304,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-769","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769\/revisions\/775"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}