Virtual Reality Lets WWII Veteran Revisit Town He Helped Liberate

Also, I came across this article the other day about how a particular virtual reality experience is allowing WWII Veterans to revisit towns from their past. In the example they describe in the article, one Veteran was even awarded with a medals of honor by the town’s mayor. Interesting use of the technology and might be worth discussing this week in class.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/virtual-reality-wwii-veteran_us_58208ec5e4b0d9ce6fbd2ad8

Mon, November 7 2016 » Future Cinema

Future Cinema – 2015

This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture. Our focus will be on the phenomenon Gene Youngblood described three decades ago as expanded cinema an explosion of the frame outward towards immersive, interactive and interconnected (i.e., environmental) forms of culture.

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