Life in Virtual Reality

Exploring Lived Experiences and Social Interactions of Long-Term VRChat Users

von Felix Krell

336 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

How do people live and interact in Cyberspace? Scientists and sci-fi writers have tackled this question for decades, yet the idea of a spatially distinct social site ›inside‹ the internet remained an imaginary for the longest time. In the 2010s, this changed: the proliferation of affordable virtual reality hardware and the emergence of social VR platforms attracted a growing number of tech enthusiasts for whom social life in VR has by now become a mundane, everyday reality. During his four-year ethnography, Felix Krell lived among, observed, and interviewed long-term users of the platform VRChat to explore what using VR technology really feels like for those with years of lived experience, and how members of emergent virtual communities negotiate their social interactions.

• Reihe: Edition Medienwissenschaft
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9783837672459
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.06.2026
• Größe: 22.5 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: transcript