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Entangled Gazes: Reconstituting the Stereoscopic Box Set with LLMs and Virtual Reality

2025

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This paper presents a computational framework for critically reinterpreting colonial-era stereoscopic box sets. Using James Ricalton’s China through the Stereoscope (1901) as a case study, we deconstruct its linear narrative using NLP methods for thematic modeling, semantic mapping, and colonial language identification. This analysis informs two complementary artworks in a large-scale 360° VR environment. Cross Eyed offers a guided experience, using the thematic models as lenses for inquiry and visually distinguishing identified rhetoric. Latent Cartographies, in contrast, empowers users to freely navigate the archive’s raw semantic space, fostering diverse modes of experiential engagement with contested heritage. For demonstration visit: https://epfl-emplus.github.io/EntangledGazes/

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2025

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/5b80d5d4-aa3a-43df-baa5-1a6ad79cd613

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), education (such as medical or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings). Other distinct types of VR-style technology include augmented reality and mixed reality, sometimes referred to as extended reality or XR, although definitions are currently changing due to the nascence of the industry.

Virtual reality headset

A virtual reality headset (or VR headset) is a head-mounted device that provides virtual reality for the wearer. VR headsets are widely used with VR video games but they are also used in other applications, including simulators and trainers. VR headsets typically include a stereoscopic display (providing separate images for each eye), stereo sound, and sensors like accelerometers and gyroscopes for tracking the pose of the user's head to match the orientation of the virtual camera with the user's eye positions in the real world.

Narrative

A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare (to tell), which is derived from the adjective gnarus (knowing or skilled). Narration (i.

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