My new book The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan is now shipping (though the official release date is not for a few weeks). I also have a pair of book talks at Harvard this month:
Placing Virtual Reality: Japan’s Alternative VR History as part of the Harvard Discovery Series (4/13/22) — recording here
Japanese Virtual Reality and the Privatization of Presence as part of the Reischauer Institute’s Japan Forum Series (4/22/22)
The first draws from the second chapter of the book on Japan’s VR history and how the meaning of the “virtual” changes as it crosses the pacific. The second will focus more on the cultural politics of perceptual enclosure and what Japan Studies can learn from VR.