2003
Rethinking Virtual Reality: Key Concepts and Concerns
Char Davies

"I first wrote about the implications of VR technology in 1991 in a text titled "Virtual Nature", in which I decried VR's reinforcement of dualistic attitudes and raised the challenge of using the technology alternatively, as an antidote, in terms of reaffirming our embodied participation within the natural world rather than our instrumentally objectifying conquest of it. I was, in effect, calling for a rethinking of the technology. And, inseparable from that rethinking, a reconsideration of our conventional attitudes towards our own being and becoming in the world."

Char Davies