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Women redesign female characters to show what videogames are missing out on

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques—literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own When Virginia Woolf was asked…
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Virtual reality may be coming to the courtroom

Most people do not want to be picked for jury duty. You have to take time off work. You’re made to sit around for hours. Wouldn’t it be better if jury duty consisted of exploring Link’s childhood village from Ocarina of Time in virtual reality?  Jury duty is unlikely to ever boil down to playing videogames.  Although jury duty is unlikely to ever boil down to playing videogames, that fantasy isn’t entirely off base. Virtual reality may be coming to courtrooms in the near(ish) future. Swiss researchers, notes Citylab’s Laura Bliss, “published a paper and video examining the use of the Oculus…