Immersive Embodiment

Jarvis, Liam

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“…Thus, the next step is to cultivate a nuanced understanding of the metaverse's immersive characteristics. As emphasized by Liam Jarvis in his seminal work Immersive Embodiment [64], the concept of embodiment within immersive environments is set to play a pivotal role. Indeed, as alluded to earlier, immersion promotes a sense of disembodiment, liberating individuals to explore places, execute actions, and interact without leaving the comfort of their home, involving themselves in strenuous movements, or engaging in direct face-to-face encounters.…”

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Towards an Ethics for the Healthcare Metaverse

TRETTER,

SAMHAMMER,

OTT

et al. 2023

Journal of Metaverse

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Harnessing the metaverse for medical and healthcare purposes is currently heralded as the “next frontier in healthcare.” However, to ensure the “amazing possibilities” of the so-called “healthcare metaverse” can be fully realized, it’s vital to proactively identify and address potential challenges, especially those of an ethical nature. This paper aims to spotlight these ethical challenges within the healthcare metaverse and chart a course for confronting these issues and cultivating an ethics framework for this emerging field. We will demonstrate that the ethical quandaries within the healthcare metaverse bear striking similarities to those seen in digital medicine, an arena that grapples with vast quantities of data and the application of artificial intelligence. Reflecting on these parallels, we explore how six central ethical challenges in digital medicine – 1) accessibility, 2) fairness, 3) discrimination and bias, 4) responsibility, 5) privacy, data safety and security, and data ownership, as well as 6) environmental issues – unfold within the healthcare metaverse’s virtual boundaries and show that the metaverse’s immersive nature further intensifies these ethical challenges. In view of this, we advocate that the next phase in forging ethics for the healthcare metaverse involves a nuanced reconsideration of current ethical methods and principles in digital medicine, with an emphasis on the immersive element of the metaverse. We foresee the concept of embodiment within virtual settings to be at the heart of this immersion-focused reassessment.

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Towards an Ethics for the Healthcare Metaverse

TRETTER,

SAMHAMMER,

OTT

et al. 2023

Journal of Metaverse

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“…(2Bears, 2010)With the 2016 release of commercial HMDs, scholars, journalists and the public had greater access to fully explore what VR might offer and thus catch up with the nuanced ways in which VR might offer new subjective and embodied engagements. This included discussion of the possibility (and impossibility) of greater empathy (Bollmer, 2017; Jason et al, 2017; Milk, 2015; Mitchell, 2017), bodily sensations of presence and absence (Popat, 2016) and how VR can allow subjects to body swap (Jarvis, 2019). In this way, VR provided ways to produce Indigenous Futurism that could not be articulated in other media forms.…”

Section: Indigenous Media Indigenous Futurism and Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fourth VR: Indigenous virtual reality practice

Wallis

Ross

2020

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Indigenous creators are currently using virtual reality (VR) tools, techniques and workflows in wide-ranging geographical locations and across multiple VR formats. Their radical adaptation of this new technology folds together cultural traditions and VR’s unique audiovisual configurations to resist dominant, particularly colonial, frameworks. Within this context, we ask how VR is being used to create space and capacity for Indigenous creatives to tell their stories and how do Indigenous creatives negotiate Eurocentric modes of production and distribution? To answer these questions, our Fourth VR database provides a snapshot of Indigenous VR works. By drawing on three case studies drawn from the database – The Hunt (2018), Future Dreaming (2019) and Crow: The Legend (2018) – as well as the wider patterns emerging across the database, it is possible to see an Indigenous-centred VR production framework. This framework is diverse but also contains repeated trends such as the ability to use VR to express and realize Indigenous Futurism; foreground native languages in virtual worlds; provide new articulations of Indigenous activism; embody connections between the past, present and future and demonstrate the interconnectivity of all living things. In turn, this growing body of work, engaging with the full spectrum of VR formats and tools, provides a rich contribution to the wider arena of VR practice.

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“…Indeed, applications of VR are widespread, encompassing education [29][30][31][32], training [33][34][35][36][37][38], healthcare and rehabilitation [34,39,40], well-being [41][42][43][44], heritage and museums [45][46][47][48][49], theatre [50][51][52], cinema [53,54], journalism [55][56][57], non-fiction documentaries [58,59], teleoperation [60,61], product design [35,62,63], architecture [64,65], and social and business meetings [66].…”

Section: Introduction 1virtual Presence and Immersionmentioning

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Current Perceptions of Virtual Reality Technology

Hornsey,

Hibbard

2024

Applied Sciences

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User experience is a key predictor of future use of goods and services. The presented study collected a combination of qualitative and quantitative data from both experienced users and novices about their perceptions of virtual reality (VR) equipment, any concerns surrounding the data collected by the equipment, and facets that needed to be taken into consideration for future developments. The purpose of this research was to understand the current user experience of VR and ways in which it can be improved. The findings indicated that the majority of people have used VR, albeit infrequently, and that the most common use for it was for entertainment purposes. The most important characteristics of VR systems were judged to be the available content and price. While it was reported to be enjoyable to use, the ways in which it was suggested to be improved were through a reduction in size and weight of the headsets, and incorporating wireless capabilities. Concerns about the use of VR were the potential for sickness, discomfort, and eye strain, the disconnect from the real world and the subsequent risks that this poses, as well as the use and privacy of user data. The findings from this research can be used as a stepping stone toward the advancement of VR technologies.

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Immersive Embodiment

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Towards an Ethics for the Healthcare Metaverse

Towards an Ethics for the Healthcare Metaverse

Fourth VR: Indigenous virtual reality practice

Current Perceptions of Virtual Reality Technology

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