#DigitalHumanities scholars: where are all the Latinx DHers who do #3D, #VR, #AR? Anyone focus on US Latinx studies or Latin American studies? Are you out there? #humanidadesdigitales
But then the point again seems to be rather like early gaming console history that the game industries do not address inclusiveness & it will hit them in the bottom line. Isn't this a version of the early development of the joystick. In which said joystick was modeled for a tall
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guy and then no one was buying it and they couldn't figure out why. Likewise, VR development repeats this history. Oops, it's not working for a bunch of different bodies (and particularly female bodies for various reasons), but we're not "excluding ppl"... etc.
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and theoretically, in relation to thinking about feminist DH theories & praxis, isn't the point to think about not hiding the bodies or the embodied. But VR fundamentally wants us to imagine us as separated from our IRL bodies. Why hide the embodied labor?
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Good points. I think early on frame refresh rate was limited by the technology, but I like this paper and the fixes they’ve proposed (and that they are working with differently abled bodies) to make VR that works for everyone.
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I don’t know if there have been follow up studies on female-identifying folk with naturally occurring high amounts of test prone and vice versa, but I’d be fascinated to see if it isn’t about sex so much as hormone levels.
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