You and three of your kindergarten classmates are sitting on the floor, playing with blocks, while the teacher helps another student with her work. All the kids on the floor start throwing blocks at one another and you join in \u2014 but when the teacher notices, you\u2019re the only one who gets blamed.<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s one other difference: The other children have white skin; yours is black.<\/p>\n
This is a scene from \u201c1000 Cut Journey,\u201d an upcoming virtual reality experience aimed at showing non-black people what it\u2019s like to be African-American. It was co-developed by a team at Columbia University, led by Assistant Professor Courtney Cogburn, and one at Stanford University, led by Professor Jeremy Bailenson.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was important to Courtney, the idea is that these types of events happen to you every day, all throughout your life,\u201d Bailenson said on the latest episode of\u00a0Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher<\/strong>. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t happen once. These microagressions happen when you\u2019re a kid, when you\u2019re a teenager, when you\u2019re an adult.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more here >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You and three of your kindergarten classmates are sitting on the floor, playing with blocks, while the teacher helps another student with her work. All the kids on the floor start throwing blocks at one another and you join in \u2014 but when the teacher notices, you\u2019re the only one who gets blamed. And there\u2019s… Read more » about Can VR make us healthier, smarter and less racist?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8678,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions\/8678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}