Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The One Person in Space in VR?
I was influenced here a lot by the work of Yoshikazu Nongo, who's an urban studies scholar in Japan. He writes a lot about the Hitori Kuka, or the one person in space,. As it emerges during the same time period I'm talking about, the 1970s and 80s. And it's simultaneously as all of these individual electronic consumer technologies are emerging, like VCRs and video game consoles. Just as a movement towards moving into smaller, literally one person's basis in the case of VR. You don't need that bigger living space because you have the virtual space there for you.
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