Virtual Reality and Theater: Simulacra and Simulation | William Cusick | TEDxJerseyCity

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1. Reading Baudrillard now. I thought the texts would be easier to parse than Deleuze, it isn’t?

2. Why when he breathes does he make that awful sound?

3. schmuck schmuck

4. This idea actually was first written down by Aristotle in his Poetics. The idea must be older than Aristotle though.

5. baudrillard would not have liked this talk.

6. We are just substituting one virtual reality for another.
     We never really had reality to begin with.

   At the most all we ever had was an
   idea of what we thought it was.

   My eyes are the
   goggles and the my body is a haptic suit.

7. He kinda used simulacra to beef up what hes saying without actually offering a answer to what simulacra means in relation to VR. Dense stuff but would like to hear about it.

8. I guess he should watch more scy-fi. For example eXistenZ.

9. I usually love TEDx Talk but this speaker was rather bad even though the subject is quite interesting. Put the phone down, memorize your speech and stop playing with your hair.

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