The Ethical Dilemmas of Virtual Reality Application in Entertainment

摘要

The emergence of virtual reality technology enriches people's entertainment life. In the virtual world, we can have a full immersion of sensory experience in shopping, traveling, playing games and watching movies. However, just the same as many other human-computer interaction technologies, the use of virtual reality also leads to various issues in security and privacy, further brings ethical issues, which are derived from the process of interaction between users and virtual reality devices. It has not yet been extensively examined. The aim of this paper is to focus on the ethics of virtual reality application, especially in entertainment. we will first introduce the history and its application of virtual reality in entertainment. Then we analyze the ethical dilemmas of virtual reality application in entertainment, and give some useful advice to deal with them. Our results will provide meaning implications for practice and academic.