Since last year, I’m playing the game Dungeons and Dragons with a friend group weekly on Thursdays. Of course, the whole rona thing kinda happened and we stopped meeting up when the first quarantine hit. The struggle then became finding a way to continue online. We started off with typing the things out on discord, we had a bot on our server…

Episode 3: Physical vs VR Museums This the third episode of our podcast titled ‘Digital Discussions’, in which we discuss topics about the digital, humanities, and digital humanities. Today is a special episode, as we are proud to present a guest host at our table who is a Masters student in history. As the host of this episode, our special guest host,…
“Playgrounds are everywhere once you start looking.” I’m sure everyone here has played (or at least heard of) Pokémon Go, the mobile game that took the world by storm ever since its release. Pokémon Go is a location-based mobile game that operates in a virtual reality, allowing users to ‘capture’ and ‘evolve’ virtual Pokémon characters that appear to exist in the same…

UrbanDash – a Virtual Reality game with as goal to get from Amsterdam Central Station to Herengracht in the shortest possible time without arguing with other avatars. The visuals and renderings of textures are supremely realistic – historic buildings, cafes, fast food restaurants – every element of commercial enterprise – even road works clutter the route. Any collision with non-human life forms,…