Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality Ethics
Paul Martin Lester · 2022
From augmented or mixed reality to virtual reality, the steady progression of smartphone, eyeware, and headset technologies enhance a person&s;s actual reality (reality reality?). With additional apps such as a phone, camera, music, GPS mapping, weather and news reports, games, and in-store coupon announcements or features that immerse a user into a totally unique digital environment offer storytelling opportunities never realized. The innovations also introduce new categories of ethical concerns involved with user distractions and anxieties along with visual creators&s; film techniques. Nevertheless, if used thoughtfully and mindfully, MR and VR programs can help explain everything from a user&s;s immediate surroundings to complicated and dire news stories from distant lands. This chapter features an interview with Sarah Hill, CEO and Chief Storyteller at Healium.