Teaching Empathy Through Virtual Reality

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The Human in the Virtual

Amanda Licastro, PhD

Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric

English Department

alicastro@stevenson.edu

@amandalicastro

NYTVR “The Displaced”

Can we use

Virtual Reality

to teach

empathy?

InMind VR

https://console.instavr.co/

Are you interested in using

Virtual Reality?

Let me know

alicastro@stevenson.edu

Let’s Play!

• Download NYTVR or InMind FREE on your

Android or iPhone

• Launch the VR app on your phone

• Insert headphones if you have them

• Insert phone into Google Cardboard

• Wait for title screen to appear

• Spin in all directions, look up and down