Make: Volume 52

Jenny Ching

San Francisco, CA

(Test Builder, Party

Photo Booth)

I’d use VR to put

myself in another

person’s shoes.

We’d have more

compassion for

the homeless,

refugees, and

undocumented

people if we

were able to

experience their

lives firsthand.

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I’d love to do

aggressive

destructive

testing in VR.

Pushing flame

designs past the

fail point (without

risk) would let

me build far

cooler stuff. Plus

explosions!

Krista Peryer

Springfield, MO

(The Hollow Honda)

Iʼd love to be

a doctor and

perform surgery

on a person. I

wouldnʼt have the

stomach for it in

real life!

Viktor Koen

New York, NY

(Cover Illustration)

Even though

(very) deep sea

wreck diving or

being a medieval

knight come to

mind, Iʼd rather

experience what

my grandparents

went through

during WWII.

Painful, but

personally

significant.

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What’s something you would love to do in VR, but never do in real life?

“But [Case] also saw a certain sense in the notion

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that Night City wasn’t there for its inhabitants,

but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for

technology itself.”

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Cambridge, MA

(Data Plans)

I would get tiny

and go into a

beehive. Iʼve

entered hives

from the top, as a

cautious, human-

sized beekeeper.

With VR (and a

tiny flashlight)

I could stroll in

at bee-scale for

a leisurely look

around.

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