THE PORCELAIN DRAGON
Vietnamese Dragon - Avatar - The God of Rain
“Does technology contribute to the erosion of cultural values?”
“How can VR be used as a medium to holistically preserve cultural heritage?”
Research Question
ESSAY ON RESEARCH QUESTION
This article focuses on the importance of preserving traditions in the digital era.
The author states that it is crucial to bring cultural items straight to the audience’s hands, through their devices which they interact with everyday.
It is also cited that digitising cultural items will also inspire people and increase traffic to the physical sites
BECOMING DRAGON
VR experiment
Becoming Dragon questions the one-year requirement of Real Life Experience that transgender people must fulfill in order to receive Gender Confirmation Surgery (Sexual Reassignment Surgery), and asks if this could be replaced by one year of Second Life Experience to lead to Species Reassignment Surgery.