Note on Blindness and Traveling While Black

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Critical Reflection: Note on Blindness and Traveling While Black
With the continuous development of technology, Virtual Reality (VR) games are now being the trendsetter of today’s society. Just like how many companies follow this technological path, Oculus’ platform also pursues the same ideals. Going forward represents a critical reflection of the two VR games provided from the quest story of Oculus.
Mechanics and Aesthetics
The two VR games were titled Note on Blindness and Traveling While Black, and both presented as an audio-visual output towards their audience. The mechanics of both VR games were to watch the presentation and feel every word and emotion present at the scene. While their differences fall under their aesthetics since Note on Blindness used a black screen with hints of lights representing blindness and Traveling, Black used real videos and pictures of the actual event. Note on Blindness lets the player experience how blind people view their surroundings, just like how John Hull explained his experience. While Traveling While Black creates the scenario in which the player is included in every conversion between the people inside the shop named Ben’s Chili Bowl. Overall, both VR games create a different form of reality where people experience a life other than their own.
Social Dimension and Emotional Effects
Note on Blindness focuses on the disability where it promotes the life of blind people. It shares their daily lives and presents how they perceive the world despite not seeing it. While Traveling While Black focuses on racism which represents how the lives of African-Americans are during the 1930s to 1960s. It showed the abundance of discrimination towards people of color; evidence would be the travel boo...