Blog Post 9

 I liked Chris Milk's description of VR being an "empathy machine" because VR offers the viewer a space to experience what someone else does and see what someone else sees. I think with the video we watched, "Clouds over Sidra," as viewers we got to experience a day in the life of Sidra and see a different perspective. I really enjoyed that you could move around the spaces that Sidra inhabits. It was unique to be able to look up and see the ceiling she looks at each day and look down and see the floor she and her family walk across each day. For storytelling in both interactive and fully immersive environments, I see the potential for more to be taken away from the experience as viewers/attendees. Like we've talked about in class, reading is an engaging activity, but sometimes there is more room for distraction; not that that isn't a possibility for interactive and fully immersive storytelling. These modes of story telling do offer a different approach and more creativity as the creator and story teller. One thing that it may take away from is the imagination aspect that readers can get from reading. I think that interactive story telling will offer more of an immersive experience where as reading and watching shows/documentaries offer a different type of experience.