Extended Reality in the Philosophy Classroom
Extended Reality in the Philosophy Classroom
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Select Immersive Experiences
Richie's Plank Experience - You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze?
Traveling While Black - An examination of racism in the United States through the experience of African-American travellers seeking safety and security with the help of the Green Book.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - A cooperative game in which two people must work together to defuse a bomb. One person is locked in a virtual room with the bomb, and the other person has the bomb defusing instructions.
Home After War - An immersive experience of following a family as they return to their home in a bombed-out Fallujah neighborhood of Iraq.
Hand Physics Lab - A lab in which students use their hands to manipulate virtual objects, and explore hand and finger physics, as well as explore the differences between AR, and VR.
I Expect You To Die - A virtual escape room in which you play the role of a spy tasked with escape a number of deadly rooms
Medical Holodeck - Virtual reality anatomy program in which students can explore a 3D body and its various layers (skeletal, nerve tissue, organs etc).
Notes On Blindness - A world in which sound is visualized in a completely immersive experience.
Pistol Whip - A cinematic action game based on rhythmic patterns.
Abduction - An immersive alien abduction experience that draws parallels between alien abduction and factory farming.