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An Ethical Code for Commercial VR/AR Applications

Authors : Erick Jose Ramirez, Jocelyn Tan, Miles Elliott, Mohit Gandhi, Lia Petronio

Published in: Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The commercial VR/AR marketplace is gaining ground and is becoming an ever larger and more significant component of the global economy. While much attention has been paid to the commercial promise of VR/AR, comparatively little attention has been given to the ethical issues that VR/AR technologies introduce. We here examine existing codes of ethics proposed by the ACM and IEEE and apply them to the unique ethical facets that VR/AR introduces. We propose a VR/AR code of ethics for developers and apply this code to several commercial applications.

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Most commercial developers (Oculus, HTC, etc) have their own internal codes for employees and other codes have been proposed (Madary and Metzinger 2016). We aim to incorporate and synthesize these codes into our own proposal here which builds on what we argue are unique psychological aspects of simulation design that are unique to VR/AR.

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Title: An Ethical Code for Commercial VR/AR Applications
Authors: Erick Jose Ramirez
Jocelyn Tan
Miles Elliott
Mohit Gandhi
Lia Petronio
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-76425-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-76426-5

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_2

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