Immersive Reality & journalism

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Melissa Worden

Adam Clayton Powell III, director of USC’s Integrated Media Systems Center, spoke to Howard University students about technology and journalism in 2005.

He gets to the good stuff in part 3, in which talks about how “Immersive Reality,” the 3D virtual reality advances we see with gaming, can be applied to journalism. “There’s something about the way we as human beings are wired that leads us to the game format,” he says.

Keeping in mind that this is a 2005 lecture, it’s interesting to see that he’s talking about 3D mapping environments that already are being done.

Here are recordings of the lecture, divided into three parts: