The Anatomy of Virtual Unreality Is a project for the Uncut Festival, on the topic of this year 'Hold Me Now – Feel and Touch in an Unreal World'.
What if … we are harassed or hurt in virtual reality?
Can we really feel what happens in virtual reality? Let’s just keep this real. The truth is that virtual reality isn’t real. Virtual reality is at most an interpretation of the physical world in which feelings are only an imitation and don’t conform to any definitions found in a dictionary such as:
1. An emotion or emotional perception or attitude / Dictionary.com
2. Appreciative or responsive awareness or recognition experience / Merriam-webster Dictionary
3. The capacity to experience the sense of touch / Oxford Dictionary
So how can something that doesn’t take place in the physical world stay real? The answer is: it cannot. If it
doesn’t thrive on actual substantive interactions from the real world, it
doesn’t actually happen. And how can you feel or experience something that doesn’t happen?
Text by Virtual Reality Emotion and Feeling Deniers.