TexasGreenTea
1 min readAug 10, 2021

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Great article! There's something more in addition to promoting empathy while avoiding trauma with atrocities like the Holocaust. In addition to how VR can make people feel about it, it's also just an important teller of fact vs. fiction. A big part of it is recording the highest-fidelity account of the actual history so that no one can spread false propaganda later. When my team worked on The Last Goodbye for the SHOA Foundation, the foundation was highly motivated by the rising prevalence of Holocaust deniers online. Having a photogrammetric record of the entire concentration camp in VR with a live person standing there with you, a person who could tell you first-hand what it was like to be held there... it was really important to capture every nook and cranny because they knew one day all those old buildings will fall apart. If there's no one left alive to tell the tale, text in a history book is easy to call fake. But no one can reasonably say Pinchas Gutter didn't suffer among those millions, because he was able to set his whole story in digital stone through VR.

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TexasGreenTea

Prototyping Engineer/coder/UX designer, former Magic Leap & Technicolor — prior work: lead dev on Spotify launch on ML1 — now working on spatial text entry