E&T Magazine: Empathetic technology - experiencing life through the looking glass

In a world driven by social media, with cases of hate crime, can virtual reality and artificial intelligence help people experience life through another person’s eyes?

Imagine looking down at your body and discovering you’re a different gender or race. You’re in someone’s virtual shoes, experiencing the world as he or she, or even they, sees it – joy, fear, prejudice, and how others perceive you.

Virtual reality (VR), as never before, can help us do this – by widening our horizons, helping us understand what it’s like to be someone else. But can VR, artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, help make us more empathetic and make the world a kinder place?

Read the story on E&T’s website