Malcolm Ocean's roamblog

October 5th, 2021

edited 2021-10-05 · open in Roam
  • at a talk about VR tech for experiencing what it's like to be in a different body, particularly in emotionally-charged experiences like discrimination
    • I have some concern that it would be quite hard to accurately calibrate the experiences, because it would be easy for a triggering memory to get recalled in a way that's either
      • way more extreme than what actually occurred
      • way less intense if the person is dissociated
    • I think that inhabiting each others' nightmares / dream mashups could also be valuable, but it seems important to disambiguate projection from memory.
    • weird how they're saying "when people are embodied in [VR character]"