
y that distan…VR film. It creates an unrivaled emotional experience because it makes you feel like you are there. In every previous medium, there has been a disconnect between the viewer and the content. In virtual reality that distance disappears.
While VR pioneer Chris Milk told the Guardian that VR “is taking out the middle man … and making you feel as if you were actually there,” the viewer is also in a walled world created by the middle man of the producer. Disclosures might …
Clearly, journalism’s job is to bring human drama alive for distant audiences. But creating empathy is a goal beyond just telling a story. If the ultimate aim is to create emotion, a journalist could be tempted to omit balancing or inconvenient information that could interfere with the desired emotional effect.