Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Tricky Terrain of Virtual Reality

nytimes reporting:
...But at the moment, this is new. The Times has leapt into this technology with fanfare and has gathered acclaim. The goggles contained within the cardboard, when combined with a downloaded app on a smartphone, gives viewers a 360-degree immersion into an 11-minute film called “The Displaced,” the stories of three children — from LebanonUkraine andSouth Sudan — torn from their homes by war.
“There is a whole host of ethical considerations and standards issues that have to be grappled with,” Mr. Silverstein said, and The Times is doing just that. He and those involved with making the film met at length with the standards editor, Philip B. Corbett, among others, to go through the film piece by piece to make sure that it fairly represented reality. And his editor’s letter was meant to be as transparent as possible with readers about the process.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/public-editor/new-york-times-virtual-reality-margaret-sullivan-public-editor.html?utm_source=API+Need+to+Know+newsletter&utm_campaign=f05d8f1a59-Need_to_Know_November_17_201511_17_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bf78af04-f05d8f1a59-31701933&_r=0

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