Required Readings/Viewings
This is a list, arranged by week assigned, of ALL required readings/viewings (including from your textbook). Required posts in response to these reading/viewings are also listed.
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This is a list, arranged by week assigned, of ALL required readings/viewings (including from your textbook). Required posts in response to these reading/viewings are also listed.
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Reading/Viewing assigned (1) VIEW (2) READ
POST on your process blog: Your responses to this weeks’ viewing & reading. Were you aware of these histories? What do you find most fascinating about the timeline of Virtual Reality development, either scientifically or speculatively?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned (1) READ (2) READ Chapter 1 “What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Stay There,” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin; See:
POST on your process blog: A reading response to one of the assigned readings -- the one that resonated with you the most. Do not write a summary. In other words, do not regurgitate the article. Discuss any epiphanies or insights that occurred while reading.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned (1) READ (2) READ Chapter 2 “Alone on a Mountaintop: How ‘In Here’ Helps ‘Out There’” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin; See
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned (1) VIEW (2) READ (3) READ Chapters 3 & 4, “Hedgehog Love: Engineering Feelings with Social Presence” and “Empathy vs. Intimacy: Why Good Stories Need Someone Else” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin; See:
POST on your process blog: Write a critical response to the readings/viewing.They represent three differing perspectives on empathy in VR. Take a position.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned (1) READ Chapters 5 & 6, “What to Do and Who to Do It With: How Social VR is Reinventing Everything from Game Night to Online Harassment” and “The Starry Night That Wasn’t There: Social Media, Intimacy, and the Memory of Experience.” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin; See:
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reading/Viewing assigned (1) STUDENTS CHOOSE a READING/VIEWING for the class. Share link on with class by Thursday this week. Each class member should choose one of the READING/VIEWINGS (other than your own) posted on Slack. Be prepared to discuss what you read or viewed in class on Oct 22, our next meeting date.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned (1) VIEW (2) READ & VIEW (2) READ Chapter 8, “Reach Out and Touch Someone: Haptics, Tactile Presence, and Making VR Physical” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin; See:
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned (1) READ “Iterative Design” Professor handout *link to be posted here (2) READ & VIEW the website of Zander Reyna (password shared in class) (3) PREPARE questions to ask Zander next week.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned (1) READ & VIEW the website of Leah Roh (follow links to her projects) (2) PREPARE questions to ask Leah about her work next week. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reading/Viewing assigned READING/VIEWING 10: (1) READ & VIEW the website of (2) PREPARE questions to ask co-founder Tina Sauerlander next week.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned READING/VIEWING 11: (1) READ Chapter 8, “Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Headsets: Let’s Get Speculative," in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin; See:
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Reading/Viewing assigned (1) READ Conclusion, “When Hindsight is 2020: What Life in 2028 Might Actually Look Like,” in Future Presence, by Peter Rubin See:
POST on your process blog: your responses to the required reading (that you have read throughout the semester) Future Presence. This should be more than just a summary. Write a thoughtful response to the ideas Rubin's posit. What did you agree with? What did you not agree with? How do you see things differently?