Values/ideologies/aims

Question 1

What is an idea to do with the Matrix and society?

Answer 1

In the Matrix Neo experiences an ‘awakening’ from the virtual world to the real world. This ‘awakening’ could be experienced by VR users who awake from the virtual world to ‘the real world’ and perhaps see the virtuality in real life, such as in societies constructs.

Question 2

How can VR create empathy?

Answer 2

Charities showing how donation funds will be used and shows the real human conditions

Question 3

How does it create human connection and story telling?

Answer 3

Major evolution since film but the author/director doesn’t have full control of what the viewer will see, new form of communication

Question 4

How could it give us pleasure?

Answer 4

Experience joys difficult to find in real world

Question 5

What is project Morpheus?
Who is Morpheus?
What is the significance of Morpheus in the Matrix?

Answer 5

Codename for PlayStation VR
Name of the god of dreams in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
He asks Neo to imagine having a dream so real that he mistook it for the real world, and being unable to wake from that dream. The Matrix is the “dream” that most humans mistake for ultimate reality.

Question 6

What part of the users and gratifications theory does this apply to?

Answer 6

Entertainment - Escapism

Question 7

What is it’s issue with privacy?

Answer 7

he persistent tracking required by all VR systems makes the technology particularly useful for, and vulnerable to, mass surveillance.

Question 8

What are some unwanted symptoms that have been caused by prolonged use of virtual reality?
What is this virtual realty sickness also called?

Answer 8

The Virtual Boy caused negative physical effects, including “dizziness, nausea, and headaches and also addiction
Cybersickness similar to motion sickness