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A New Opera Wrestles With A School Shooting. Could Games Ever?
A review of Innocence at the Met raises old questions about aestheticizing pain—and newer ones about whether games could handle it differently.
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The 9/11 virtual reality experience that nobody has been waiting for
Really?
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Explore the limits of sight and empathy in Beyond Eyes
Beyond Eyes finally has a firm release window and its first comprehensive trailer after being showcased as part of Miscrosoft’s E3 press event. The brain child of Sherida Halatoe under her one-woman studio, tiger & squid, Beyond Eyes follows a young girl on her journey to find her lost cat in a worl
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Chris Milk on VR: "It can change people’s perception of each other."
TED Talk on VR points to its use outside of games
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Can virtual reality make us more empathetic?
Scientists are learning that changing bodies changes minds.
Review
A card game about drone strikes makes you comfortably numb
Bycatch forces a strange sort of empathy.
Review
Mind: Path to Thalamus works best when it forgets itself
“All of this sounds pretty cheesy or lame I’m sure. And it is.”
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To the Moon creator readies A Bird Story, which will also probably make you cry
Showing instead of telling.