We'd like to bring your attention to this amazing opportunity to attend Versions: The Creative Landscape of Virtual Reality, which will take place in NYC on Saturday March 5th. Tickets are available by application only so we encourage you to apply! If you are accepted, email virtual-reality@mit.edu and we'll form a group and work on assisting with transportation costs. 

"Versions is a new conference on creative practice and alternate realities, with a focus on virtual reality, copresented by New Museum’s incubator, NEW INC, and Kill Screen. Versions aims to shift the conversation around VR from one focused on tools and gadgets to a dynamic interdisciplinary discussion that will examine how this technology is being shaped and defined by artists, scientists, filmmakers, the gaming industry and more. Conversations will span VR’s proclaimed status as an “empathy machine” and how it’s being leveraged by journalists and the military; address urgent questions regarding emerging standards around ethics and practice; consider the technology’s relationship to the brain and its neurological and psychological effects; as well as how practitioners are exploiting the format’s opportunities for embodiment and immersion."