The building worlds Ramirez, Erick Jose creator author. text bibliography nyu 2022 monographic eng 1 online resource. "This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences. The author provides compelling evidence that VR simulations are capable of producing "virtually real" experiences in people. He also provides a framework for understanding when and how simulations induce virtually real experiences. From these insights, the book shows that virtually real experiences are responsible for several unaddressed ethical issues in VR research and design. Experimental philosophers, moral psychologists, and institutional review boards must become sensitive to the ethical issues involved between designing "realistic" virtual dilemmas, for good data collection, and avoiding virtually real trauma. Ethicists and game designers must do more to ensure that their simulations don't inculcate harmful character traits. Virtually real experiences, the author claims, can make virtual relationships meaningful, productive, and conducive to welfare but they can also be used to systematically mislead and manipulate users about the nature of their experiences. The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality will appeal to philosophers working in applied ethics, philosophy of technology, and aesthetics, as well as researchers and students interested in game studies and game design"-- Erick Jose Ramirez. Includes bibliographical references and index. Virtual reality Moral and ethical aspects Augmented reality Moral and ethical aspects Virtual reality Philosophy Reality Philosophy PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy GAMES / Video & Electronic QA76.9.V5 Ramirez, Erick Jose. New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 (DLC) 2021038403 9781000517354 1000517357 9781003042228 1003042228 1000517349 9781000517347 2021038404 9781003042228 Taylor & Francis https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2969254 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2969254 EBZ 210812 20251029164058.0 on1266205802 eng