Required readings & videos
Reading: Syntax and Sage, Sep Kamvar
Session 1: An Intro to VR
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- Reading: Using VR to Make you more empathetic in real life
- Reading: How Immersive Is Enough?
- Reading: Immersion at Scale
- Reading: Effects of Interactivity
- Video: Power of Empathy
Session 2: Mixed Media Playground
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- Video: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
- Reading (optional): ‘The Fourth Transformation’
Session 3: Empathy with self through VR
Session 4: Empathy with others through VR
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- Reading: Using virtual reality to make you more empathetic in real life
- Reading: The limits of virtual reality
- Video: Watch these 4 videos
- Notes on Blindness
- Waves of Grace
- My Mother’s Wing
- Clouds over Sidra
Session 5: Empathy with business through VR
- Reading: How Virtual Reality Is Inspiring Donors to Dig Deep for Charitable Causes
- Reading: Charity Water case study
- Reading: Ebola Documentary
- Reading: VR Therapy
Session 6: Learn from your classmates
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- Submit : Final Projects