VR is an unrivalled in its ability to build empathy, it transports us to new worlds and opens us up to experiencing life from another persons perspective. It can create safe spaces in which we can be fully ourselves as well as have interactions not possible in the real world. Or is it? VR has been on the brink of mainstream adoption for many years, finally, costs are down and frameworks are easily accessible. Is it finally coming of age? If this is true, how will we use this technology to its full potential? We will explore when, how and why to use VR through examples and case studies. How can we move beyond the empathy machine?

1. VR, what is it
good for?
More than an empathy machine
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2. Hello,
@hollielubbock
@fjordlondon

3. Has its time
come?
Where is it?

4. Has its time
come?

5. Are we
entering
another
cycle?
Oculus VR / Facebook

6. 6
Businesses
Try it but haven’t really committed
Users
Fascinated but don’t invest in headsets*
* Source
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7. “The biggest barrier to wide
adoption of immersive
technologies is the lack of
good user experience design”
Tuong Huy Nguyen

8. Experiments
in Virtual
Reality

9. 9
A virtual kitchen where users
could explore and identify
potential hazards

10. 10https://hpbf.fjordnet.com/

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12. 12

13. Virtual Strengths

14. Learning
Empathy
I am Fatmira

15. 1. Empathy

16. Empathy
The ability to understand and
share the feelings of another.

17. We’re trying to create
a change in relation to an
object, person, experience

18. “When you’re by
yourself & your
watching
something its
ground zero for
intimacy”
Zohar Kfir

19. Empathy machine, if
you design with
empathy

20. Immersive experiences help people
build empathy to better understand
unfamiliar situations
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21. 21
Jason DaSilva’s accessibility map
The inspiration

23. 23See article

24. 2. Learning

25. Applications for
learning are the
hidden power of
Virtual Reality

26. Learning
through doing
Training at
scale
Training in
dangerous
situations
Learning
how?

27. H
ear
Sim
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reality
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onstration, discussion
Field
trips, exhibits
Im
ages
Learning pyramid
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edia
Teach
another
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28. H
ear
Sim
ulated
reality
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onstration, discussion
Field
trips, exhibits
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ages
Learning pyramid
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ultim
edia
Teach
another
Read

29. Putting on a headset
is a commitment to
the content

30. VR can help people
plan for the future
better
“Undergraduate students looked into a virtual
mirror and saw their own faces, aged to 70,
staring back. After the VR experience, they took a
questionnaire about allocating $1,000 from an
unexpected windfall.” Wired
Compared to the control group the aged VR
students allocated the money with more
consideration of their future. Standford study
The left panel demonstrates a morphed
representation of one of the authors as he looks
currently. The right panel is an age-morphed
version of the same author.

31. Could VR enable people to make
better decisions?

32. Time to move…

33. Physical movement has
huge potential in both areas
We’re still learning…

34. We know
movement effects
mood and vice
versa
Amy Cuddy Ted talk

35. PESTLE
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Movement helps you feel
better, think better &
reason better

36. When we
physically
perform a task
we retain more
information

37. Case study?
See the video

38. So…

39. VR opens huge
possibilities for
learning both skills
and increasing
empathy

40. But only if we
embrace it as a
new medium and
step outside of
the VR box

41. Experiment
more!
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42. It’s way more fun to jump