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| Virtual reality tested by NFL as tool to confront racism, sexism |
| 2016-04-11 |
| [USATODAY] Virtual reality can bring us to the top of Mt. Everest. But Stanford University researchers believe it can conquer an even steeper challenge: racial and sexual discrimination. This is of course the absolute first priority of the National Football League. Anything else is just playing games. “Feeling prejudice by walking a mile in someone else’s shoes is what VR was made for," says Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. Thirty-some men, most of them supersized, have been frittering their time away playing football when they should have been concentrating on postmodernist deconstructive feminist afro gay studies. Damn them. Its diversity training scenarios, which aim to engender empathy, have attracted interest from one large organization: the National Football League. The NFL is in the early stages of determining how it will use the new technology to train league staffers and players on understanding bias, league executives tell USA TODAY. As long as they're not abusing dogs or raping women I'd think they could be left alone. A simple "don't do that" should suffice for most adults. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 We are in sore need of Professor Turgeson. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-04-11 17:50 |
| #3 Gawd, it would be fun if Sam Kinison was still alive. Ah! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-04-11 14:49 |
| #2 Virtual reality can bring us to the top of Mt. Everest. No it can't. It can show you what other peoples' efforts looked like. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-04-11 10:37 |
| #1 As opposed to real reality in which discrimination (me, not me) spatial analysis is a survival trait. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-04-11 10:11 |