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Holocaust XR: Immersive Technologies as the Last Act of Testimony book cover

1st Edition

Holocaust XR Immersive Technologies as the Last Act of Testimony

By Stephen D. Smith Copyright 2027
306 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As the last Holocaust survivors bear witness in an age of deepfakes, avatars, and AI, the authenticity of witness is at stake as never before. Holocaust XR examines immersive and extended reality technologies through the lens of testimonial methodology, ethics, representation, and authenticity. Written by a principal architect of the field of immersive testimony— Dimensions in Testimony, The... Read more

Introduction

Part I: The Theory and Practice of Testimony in the Digital Age

1. The Debris of the Future

2. Witness Machines

3. The Problem of Digital Resurrection

4. Face to Facebook

5. Loci of Witness

6. Infrastructures of Memory

7. Game Changing

Part II: Immersive Testimonial Methodologies

8. Holocaust XR in Practice

9. Interactive Biography

10. Room Scale VR Testimony

11. 360 Testimony on Location

12. Walking Tours

13. Animated VR Testimony

14. Mobile Interactive Biography

Part III: The Future of Future Technologies

15. The Ethics of XR Representations

16. Two Witnesses Speak on the Future of Testimony

17. Not Yet an Opportunity Lost

Biography

Stephen D. Smith is Visiting Professor of Religion at USC and Executive Director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation. His research spans oral history, Holocaust memory, and immersive testimony technologies. Co-founder of the UK National Holocaust Museum, his publications include The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory (2023).

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