Fourth VR: Indigenous virtual reality practice
@article{Wallis2020FourthVI, title={Fourth VR: Indigenous virtual reality practice}, author={Keziah Wallis and Miriam Ross}, journal={Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies}, year={2020}, volume={27}, pages={313 - 329} }
Indigenous creators are currently using virtual reality (VR) tools, techniques and workflows in wide-ranging geographical locations and across multiple VR formats. Their radical adaptation of this new technology folds together cultural traditions and VR’s unique audiovisual configurations to resist dominant, particularly colonial, frameworks. Within this context, we ask how VR is being used to create space and capacity for Indigenous creatives to tell their stories and how do Indigenous…
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