yelled at us, asking why we came here. Telling us we “should have hanged [ourselves] rather then come here.” (Wiesel, 30) for a moment I thought the same. All of the words spoken around me causing me to fill with more fear, and dread. After we were sorted, I was sure I would be heading for the crematorium, and as we got closer the fear only grew, relief coming only as we continued past the pit. From there we headed into the barracks, and the scene around me began to fade to black.
Only then did I remember where I truly was. And as I sat in the dark, waiting for the Rift to open I knew I would never get the images from this experience out of my head.
After a moment, the mask lifted the blue light filling my vision, and I felt the connectors
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I also thought about what I took away from the experience, though, and how VR as a whole has changed me through this. I’ve come to find that VR “is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us in worlds completely foreign from our own.” (Milk) It is, without a doubt, the “ultimate empathy machine.” (Milk) it allows one to experience the life of another person, and like I experienced in this VR, it can truly be full immersion. “Inside of it, it feels like real life, it feels like truth. And you feel present in the world that you're inside and you feel present with the people that you're inside of it with.” (Milk) this machine allows for us to establish a stronger understanding of the world around us, and the people inside of it. This is where “I think that we can change minds with this machine. And we've already started to change a few.” (Milk) virtual reality isn’t simply “a video game peripheral. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the