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The Desert Of The Unreal: Inequality In Virtual And Augmented Reality, Mary Anne Franks
The Desert Of The Unreal: Inequality In Virtual And Augmented Reality, Mary Anne Franks
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The world we live in is structured by inequality: of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, disability, and more. Virtual and augmented reality technologies hold out the promise of a more perfect world, one that offers us more stimulation, more connection, more freedom, more equality than the "real" world. But for such technologies to be truly innovative, they must move us beyond our current limitations and prejudices. When existing inequalities are unacknowledged and unaddressed in the "real" world, they tend to be replicated and augmented in virtual realities. We make new worlds based on who we are and what we do …