Defend all VR Enthusiasts

Look at the negativity directed at Paris Hilton for daring to be an early adopter of the HTC Vive.

Look at the negativity directed at Paris Hilton for daring to be an early adopter of the HTC Vive.

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As many of you know Hollywood is diving into VR headfirst.

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Yet tech industry is something like “80 percent white male”, that includes Virtual Reality, and that’s why we all need to care about promoting diversity and planning inclusion.

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I was seeing a lot of people’s negative reactions (in social media) to Paris Hilton being photographed holding HTC Vive controllers.

So when I connected the negativity against Paris Hilton with the negativity against Renee Zellweger in that both kinds of criticism seem to be coming from the same place of entitlement and male privilege.

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It’s important to consider what Rose McGowan is saying in the context of VR in part because Hollywood is so excited to be moving into VR.

Rose McGowan is standing by Renee Zellweger and all women by answering this critic this way.

We, VR Enthusiasts, need to stand by all under-represented people in VR, including even Paris Hilton who has taken some criticism for posing with an HTC Vive.

We should care, because when the establishments collective ego attacks ANYONE for being a VR enthusiast and we just stand by passively accepting it without defending other VR enthusiasts then we all lose.

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