Reading Response: Hamlet on the Holodeck, Ch. 3

As is mentioned in Hamlet on the Holodeck, the expressive forms have their own affordances and norms to be regarded as a new media format. From my point of view, VR falls in the expressive form given its unique nature of immersive and interactive experience. One can argue that VR seems to be the first-person form of narrative that could be categorized as a combination of film/game and 3D imaging technology. Nevertheless, the gap between 2D expression and VR experience is so large that we could count it as a brand-new field. In the field of VR, how different types of sensations are simulated undoubtedly replies to certain rules and expectations. To my knowledge, there’s no existing media form that focuses on giving people a realistic feeling of exploring the world with one vision and one sound.

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