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Arowx
Explorer
There seems to have been a lot of controversy regarding women and the games industry, so as VR is in my humble opinion the next generation of human to human and/or machine interaction, and one where the interactions will be much more personal and emotional, is the VR community morally and ethically obliged to encourage women to take part in creating the future?

Or is VR just going to be a new geeky/seedy place for men to view porn in 3D?
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Slybo
Honored Guest
Don't worry, there will be plenty of VR porn for fat ugly girls too.

But seriously.
I'm not even sure what you are asking. What is the VR community? Are you implying that whatever it is, its some kind of boys only club?
This thread sounds like one of those questions that people like to ask in order to sound thoughtful or intelligent.

Im not trying to be on the attack here. I really don't know what you mean by "morally and ethically obliged".
It sounds like such a pretentious question. Or at the very least, a loaded question.
Where's my spy camera?

TheGiantRobot
Honored Guest
Facebook.


Just saying.

Anonymous
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"Arowx" wrote:
There seems to have been a lot of controversy regarding women and the games industry, so as VR is in my humble opinion the next generation of human to human and/or machine interaction, and one where the interactions will be much more personal and emotional, is the VR community morally and ethically obliged to encourage women to take part in creating the future?

Um... I think anybody who is interested should be encouraged to develop for VR. The more the merrier!

"Arowx" wrote:
Or is VR just going to be a new geeky/seedy place for men to view porn in 3D?

Why is that an "or" question? The existence of content that some might find objectionable does not preclude creation or enjoyment of other content.

Peejle
Explorer
"SnottyBison" wrote:
The existence of content that some might find objectionable does not preclude creation or enjoyment of other content.

Exactly. If it were otherwise most women would not use the internet. And who knows? Maybe you are reading a post from a woman at this very moment...

Peejle

Herolord
Protege
The fact that you argue for more "emotional" video games to appeal to women implies you are aware that men and women are different. The diferrences between men and women explain the disparity between the number of male and female video game programmers. Men are far more likely to a) have the traits that enable one to be successful at video game programming and b) men are more likely to be interested and attempt video game programming. Creating videos games isn't objectively superior to other things so there is no moral/dogmatic requirement to artificially increase the number of female video game creators. It isn't as though the average quality of life is determined by one's likelihood to be able to be successful at making video games. The only reason feminists push for more female video game programmers, film directors etc, is because men do it and their arguments are falsely predicated on the notion that men and women are exactly the same in every regard, and as such, any disparity in outcome can only be attributed to oppression. That is not to say that no wman can be good at programming, just that statistically, men will outnumber women in technical fields due to non-oppression related reasons. For example, there is no law or forum policy that prevents females from posting or ordering dev kits, but men still outnumber women here, at least 10 to 1.

Ethereal
Explorer
I wouldn't try to predict whether there will be a significant number of women developing VR software, but I can say that all of the women I've showed the Rift have really liked it (they seem to react more to the roller coaster than men do... although women seem to react more to everything right?).

Anonymous
Not applicable
"Slybo" wrote:
This thread sounds like one of those questions that people like to ask in order to sound thoughtful or intelligent.

Or a politician 🙂

I don't think anyone in this community are saying no to women, it's more like that we preach the word to everybody - male or female. However, I don't think VR content will be more personal or emotional if women got more involved. Maybe a tad more flowers and nicer curtains - but that's it... 😄

WhiteThunder94
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Rosenklotz
Honored Guest
I presume, that VR will give the game industry a new direction, less FPS, more exploration, recreation, social interaction. Therefore I guess it will be more attractive to other people than young males - longterm. The sensation of VR is so attractive that it will convince all genders and ages. In this early stage, it is still an insider-thing for geeks and nerds (which are 99% young men).