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The former uses evil squid-bodied robots, the latter privileged human elites, but both works see humanity too distracted and preoccupied - by a full-scale replica of late-90s reality, or just sports on TV - to even be aware of the actions of those in charge. The picture trips all of our “horrible cyberpunk future” alarms, carefully put in place by everything from The Matrix to Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent. This image generated a lot of visceral reactions ranging from the Washington Post calling it “ creepy” to the Verge saying, Is this picture an allegory of our future ? the people in a virtual reality with our leaders walking by us. Here’s the image that Mark posted to his Facebook account: On February 21, 2016, just a couple of days after Eva’s video went viral, Mark Zuckerberg attended Samsung’s Unpacked event and entered the room while the entire audience was immersed within a VR experience.
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So we all had complete license to stare, and boy did we ever.”
This was written up by Gothamist and Gizmodo, with comments about how absurd VR looks and marveling at how “the person we were gawking at couldn’t even see or hear us. Here’s a video of Dimitri playing VR in public:
Then on June 11, 2015, Zach Lieberman posted a picture of game developer Dimitri Lozovoy playing a VR game on the NYC subway. This image of man in VR outside of a restaurant was shared to reddit’s /r/pics on January 28, 2015, just a month after the Gear VR Innovator Edition was first released. I think that this breaking of eye contact can help explain why some of these other images of people using VR in public received such a strong reaction. Robert Scoble told me that part of the negative reactions to the Google Glass was that it broke eye contact while talking to people, and that this violated our social contracts and cultural norms. One is the fear that VR will transform our society into an anti-social dystopia, and the other one is that it’s weird and awkward to block out eye contact while you’re around other people in a social situation. I think that there are a couple of other things that Eva’s viral video taps into. Except imagine that chunky phone strapped to our eyeballs” This is the future #VR /1z7VscNsLOĮva does love VR, loves people watching, and is highly amused with “how hilarious today’s headsets look.” She says, “Today, we are literally this guy. Here’s the video that Eva shot, as well as her original tweet: I had a chance to catch up with Eva at the VR Hackathon before GDC to talk about some of these reactions, being a woman in VR, and some of her community organizing efforts to bring women in VR together. Eva wrote up an essay of these reactions on Medium titled “I love VR but hundreds of thousands of people think I hate it.” It struck a chord and tapped into the public’s perception of VR, and some of the fears of social isolation that is a common perception of where VR technology is going. She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap Motion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.” It went viral with over 5000 retweets, 5 million views on Imgur, it hit the front-page of Reddit, and amassed nearly half a million views on YouTube. Eva Hoerth is a VR design researcher & community organizer, and she enjoys recording videos of people as they’re immersed within a VR experience.