TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring Virtual Reality Through Ihde’s Instrumental Realism
AU - Zhang, He
AU - Carroll, John M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Based on Ihde’s theory, this paper explores the relationship between virtual reality (VR) as an instrument and phenomenology. It reviews the “technological revolution” spurred by the development of VR technology and discusses how VR has been used to study subjective experience, explore perception and embodiment, enhance empathy and perspective, and investigate altered states of consciousness. The paper emphasizes the role of VR as an instrumental technology, particularly its ability to expand human perception and cognition. Reflecting on this in conjunction with the work of Husserl and Ihde, among others, it revisits the potential of VR to provide new avenues for scientific inquiry and experience and to transform our understanding of the world through VR.
AB - Based on Ihde’s theory, this paper explores the relationship between virtual reality (VR) as an instrument and phenomenology. It reviews the “technological revolution” spurred by the development of VR technology and discusses how VR has been used to study subjective experience, explore perception and embodiment, enhance empathy and perspective, and investigate altered states of consciousness. The paper emphasizes the role of VR as an instrumental technology, particularly its ability to expand human perception and cognition. Reflecting on this in conjunction with the work of Husserl and Ihde, among others, it revisits the potential of VR to provide new avenues for scientific inquiry and experience and to transform our understanding of the world through VR.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-57860-1_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-57860-1_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85192244820
SN - 9783031578595
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 82
EP - 93
BT - Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win - 19th International Conference, iConference 2024, Proceedings
A2 - Sserwanga, Isaac
A2 - Joho, Hideo
A2 - Ma, Jie
A2 - Hansen, Preben
A2 - Wu, Dan
A2 - Koizumi, Masanori
A2 - Gilliland, Anne J.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 19th International Conference on Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win, iConference 2024
Y2 - 15 April 2024 through 26 April 2024
ER -