Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look

(This is obviously better enjoyed as a video! Watch this talk and the accompanying visuals at http://cmsw.mit.edu/video-virtual-reality-meets-documentary) +++++++++++ The goal of this panel is to talk with some of the leading creators in the VR space and better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism. This will help us to disambiguate some of the major strands of VR and in so doing consider the inherent tensions in VR between documentation and simulation, the challenges of spatial storytelling and new narrative structures, the ethics and cognitive neuroscience of immersion, interaction, and affect; and VR’s past and future. Speakers: Raney Aronson-Rath, FRONTLINE Katy Morrison, Virtual Reality studio VRTOV Nonny de la Peña, "The Godmother of Virtual Reality” Caspar Sonnen, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam