Can Virtual Reality Create Empathy?

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Filmmakers are using VR to create shared human experiences but can it really help us connect with others as well as literature, theatre or film? Tina meets documentary filmmaker Nonny de la Pena to get an insight into her film After Solitary, which gives a 360 degree perspective on one former inmate's cell in solitary confinement in the United States. Academy Award-winning film director Alejandro G. Iñárritu tells reporter Laura Hubber why he hopes his Oscar-winning installation Carne y Arena, or Flesh and Sand, could change attitudes towards migrants. Artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth’s Emmy award-winning film Collisions uses cutting edge technology to tell a true story from 1950s Australia. Plus, self-styled hologram storyteller Asad J Malik makes the case for augmented over virtual reality. He tells Datshiane Navanayagam why he chose AR to create his border-control role-play experience, Terminal 3. Presented by Tina Daheley Produced by Kirsty McQuire and Johny Cassidy Image: A couple wearing headphones and virtual reality goggles experience the Rhizomat VR art piece by artist Mona El Gammal at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/ Getty Images