In one installment, she quoted producer Loira Limbal on the current fatal flaw of VR: “If people don’t see communities that are typically thought of as ‘other’ as human, I don’t think that a VR piece is going to humanize them.” It’s a false premise, Limbal argued, that relies on a trope of putting a “human face” on someone who is considered “other,” i.e., not the cultural norm of white, male, straight, cis, and able-bodied.
