Discussion: Race After Technology and Open Letter to Palmer Luckey

Discussion: Race After Technology and Open Letter to Palmer Luckey
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Discussion: Race After Technology and Open Letter to Palmer Luckey
Race After Technology
Empathy terms to how a person can understand and feel the emotions of another individual. Concerning these, Virtual Reality (VR), which has been pretty abundant in society nowadays, presents empathy as people can experience a different reality in its sense. From the perspective of Benjamin (2019), he specified various questions that address issues relating to VR and empathy. His main target was to question the people behind VR production who promote empathy within it. Having presented that VR creates an environment that uses empathy to garner its audience, he questions why to use empathy as the heart for commercializing the product if people could understand others without using it. He also explained that even blind people are aware of discrimination despite not physically seeing it, so using VR as a medium to unders...