Polynesian Tattoo: A Shift in Meaning

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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
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Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Dylan DeLosAngeles

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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Brenda Laurel's Placeholder: In dreams everybody flies their own way
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Claire L. Evans

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Rob La Frenais

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Against realism: The badly rendered potential of VR
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Vince Dziekan

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Metascape, memory and spacetime: The museum in VR
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Andrew Yip

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Tattoo played a significant role as a marker of status, wealth, and pride in Polynesian societies. A more fluid, creative tattoo tradition is being practised today.

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