Lynn Hershman pioneered the concept of interactive media. Digital technology such as DVD players, PCs, and home video game consoles allow for more and more types of media to involve the user. Virtual reality is slowly making its way into reality through physical interfaces such as camera's with depth sensors and the nintendo wii's physical control using wireless gyroscopes. As time passes, technology allows artists to embed more choices within their work. Fictional stories once restricted to single paths in books can now have hundreds of alternate storylines in video games depending on the choices made by the user. People can escape into a virtual second life on the internet and use the anonymity provided on the internet to find new creative methods of escapism.
Society as a whole has latched onto this idea of interactive media. We are past the turning point of digital technology integrating into daily life. It is inescapable. At this point the rush is to see how we can integrate this technology more fully with real life in order to mesh the virtual world and the world around us.
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