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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Loneliness and melancholia

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  Shelley M Park University of Central Florida

  Thursday, April 4, 2019 — 6:07 pm

  this differently, as a space of possibility for something new (and not merely as a space of loss).  ...
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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Really fascinating piece. I'm

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  Alexander Svensson Indiana University, Bloomington

  Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 5:52 pm

  Really fascinating piece. I'm particularly struck by the loneliness and melancholic nature of these commericials; the male users are not only all shown to be living by themselves at home, but also seem to be distanced from and isolated amonst the cro ...
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  Re: Virtual Reality is a weird machine

  Potentials for unruly interaction

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  Vicki Williams University of Birmingham

  Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 4:58 pm

  "endless possibilities" and absolute access. So in terms of access and agency, I think ontological ...
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  Re: Virtual Reality is a weird machine

  Ontological weirdness, socioeconomic banality

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  University of Copenhagen

  Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 4:05 pm

  of VR's ontology (esp. as chaotic, messy) reveals much about its possible cultural trajectories? ...
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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Glass and imprisonment

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  University of Copenhagen

  Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 3:04 pm

  existing  within  the device (rather than  as  the device) possible at all. Upon closer inspection, however, ...
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  Virtual Reality is a weird machine

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  Vicki Williams University of Birmingham

  April 03, 2019

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  Virtual Reality is a weird machine Virtual Reality immersion weird affect and embodiment Ontology Curator's Note Virtual reality is weird. By its very nature, VR asks users to immerse themselves in a digitally simulated “world” and think of it as rea ...
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  AR Horror Gimmicks: Sites of Unbounded Potential and Vulnerability

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  Alexander Svensson Indiana University, Bloomington

  April 02, 2019

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  own possibilities of material unboundedness and breakdown. Importantly, these notions of bodily excess ...
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  Dancing Out the Threat of Corporal Obsolescence in VR

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  Dillon Heyck

  April 02, 2019

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  possibilities that a new medium like virtual reality opens up might not mean that old media is willing to be ...
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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Great piece! I'm particularly

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  Andrew Kemp Georgia State University

  Monday, April 1, 2019 — 1:48 pm

  Great piece! I'm particularly fascinated by the technology's modes of blurring the private and public sphere. The fact that the character can ask for you to come home early to spend time with her is such a specific, and even romantic, choice tha ...
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  Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

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  Shelley M Park University of Central Florida

  Mumtaz Hammad University of Central Florida

  April 01, 2019

  8 comments

  Okaeri: Living with your favorite character augmented reality feminism care Gender/Queer Theory Orientalism Curator's Note “Okaeri” is a promotional video for an augmented reality technology produced by the Japanese company Gatebox.  The video market ...

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