Published 31 October 20189 November 2018 · Events / Announcement / Technology Our never-before attempted VR event at the 2018 Digital Writers’ Festival Editorial team The Politics and Possibilities of Virtual Reality 7 pm (AEDT) Thursday 1 November Online (via AltspaceVR or Digital Writers’ Festival site) Join Overland‘s resident tech-genius and poet Benjamin Laird, experimental storyteller Mez Breeze, and writer and VR enthusiast Mark Riboldi to boldly go where no writers have gone before: a panel examining the history and present of VR taking place in virtual space! So satisfy your Matrix-spurred curiosity with this free event, as part of the 2018 Digital Writers Festival, and learn what happens when we finally go beyond imagining to immersing ourselves in alternative realities. Various and easy ways to join this event: Attend in virtual space! For this you’ll need a compatible device (Google Daydream, Gear VR, Oculus Go, etc) and a free account. Find out how on AltspaceVR. In 2D mobile mode via an Android mobile device, using the AltspaceVRapp. In 2D desktop mode. For this option, install the AltspaceVR app on your Windows machine. If that all sounds too much for your first foray into VR, watch the YouTube stream instead! You’ll hear the discussion, can ask questions, and will have a window onto the Overland+DWF VR space. Watch via the DWF website from 7pm. Check out the rest of the 2018 festival program Editorial team More by Editorial team › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 16 February 202419 February 2024 · Announcement Statement of the Board of Overland Literary Journal Editorial team We, the Board of Overland literary journal, make the following statement in support of Editors-in-chief Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk and the entire Overland staff. We are a diverse Board made up of writers, unionists, lawyers, academics, activists, and arts industry workers. Our Board includes First Nations peoples as well as members of Australia’s Jewish community. 7 February 202413 February 2024 · Technology Reciprocal human investment Rob Horning Who cares if AI books are reviewed by AI critics? No one is going to force me to engage with any of it; in fact, it will exist only to reinforce the idea that no sort of engagement is required with anything. The machines can go on making all their nowhere plans for nobody, which by contrast will help make me feel like I am comfortably somewhere.
