Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
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Is Virtual Reality Sexist?

Is Virtual Reality Sexist? | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Daniel Harvey:  "Diversity in VR is a design problem, writes SapientNitro's Daniel Harvey. Here's how to fix it."

Laborious Cretin's comment, February 27, 2016 2:38 PM
No. They can go out and get a head set and game engine right now. Any color,race,sex can go out and get the basic stuff for VR. As far as gamers gate. That's a bunch of assholes fighting with feminists & they both do not see what is so wrong. It really gets to what's wrong with the video game industry in general. From cookie cutter games and war games to the types of emersion story/plot lines people want. Each persons perception of a utopia is different & stylizing to each person or groupings is not that easy to pull off. So in reality VR is not the problem as much as game styles, gamification learning tailored to the individuals Ect... AS far as game companies hiring. Well that gets into budy budy networks and sucks in it's own ways. They wouldn't hire me, Though to be fair I wouldn't buy most of their junk also. Though I see that in other places also. Farmilab would probably even reject me as a janitor. LOL Yet I know particle physics into string theory and constraints on things like DM,DE,Quantum foam, Ect... This does not touch that they want to DIY or build their own in the end. Consumer products will have forced add's and such, & destroying the over all value of their products. Also building your own lets you customize & personalize the experience. The way to get around A.I. pushing adds to the individual is to make your own. Vive, Unreal engine, A art app. and assets, and your set. If they have problems with one field/area then they have videos online for that. For security use strong military grade or better crypto. As far as empathy,ethics,morals/morality. Well that is subjective and boils down to a perspective of the individual or grouping. Just think of the empathy, ethics, morals of a grouping that has the highest imprisonment per capita, or lethal injection Vs. stoning to death or hanging Ect.. 80 of the richest owning more than the bottom 50% of the population. The world is not a fair place, and it never was.
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Diversity in children’s apps: ‘Gender depictions tend to be very stereotyped’

Diversity in children’s apps: ‘Gender depictions tend to be very stereotyped’ | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Stuart Dredge:  "But a growing number of developers are thinking hard about how they present gender, race and socio-economic differences".

Terry Doherty's curator insight, June 10, 2015 10:50 AM

Interesting perspective - and thought-provoking article.

 

“We had diversity as a very live issue, and something we took pride in and discussed internally. But we gradually realised that bias turns up anyway.”