Laboring Infrastructure:
VR can be a tool for empathy. It allows us to step into the shoes of someone’s experience. This allows us to see from the perspective of the lives of many minorities, like refugees or people with disabilities. With this advantage, we can then start to deeper understand how people live, instead of always seeing just through our lenses.
She explains this concept as “experiencing the non-human through virtual re-embodiment.” Which speaks heavily to her point of “body transfer” and how VR lets us feel and be in the perspective of another person.