Extended Reality Technologies
Emma Kaylee Graves · 2023
This chapter includes some background details about extended reality to support the rest of the discussion in this book. It starts by noting a brief history of virtual, augmented and mixed reality, before providing some more recent context about the state of the industry. This includes key devices and applications. Immersion and presence, two interlinking key concepts in this area, are defined and discussed. The chapter then explores some of the benefits of the technologies, as well as concerns and ethical considerations. This links to a discussion of moral panics, where the chapter examines the characteristics of moral panics and previous research on this type of news discourse, particularly related to technology.