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  • It’s not just a digital recreation, it can involve physical acting as well. This article quotes a motion-capture performer:

    Ms Jefferies told the BBC she was once asked to act out a scene with a male performer involving a sexual assault with no prior warning.

    “I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.

    "This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.

    “It was just purely gratuitous in my opinion.”

    She refused to act out the “disgusting” scene - which was made worse as she was the only female on set.

    “There’s no nudity involved, but its still an act and there’s an intimacy in that act and also a violence in this situation,” she said.

    “So yes there may be a layer of Lycra between us, but you are still there and still having to truly immerse yourself in this scene.”

    In the end her concerns were listened to and the scene was not recorded.



















  • If you’ve ever watched the old or modern versions of Quantum Leap you know the routine: a “leaper” is time traveling by temporarily taking over the body of someone in the past, while another person from the traveler’s own time is supporting them remotely as a projected hologram only the time traveler can see and hear. The hologram can’t touch anything or communicate with anyone except the leaper in the past, but can zap around the past like a ghost to experience events without affecting anything directly.

    I’ve always thought that if you invented the hologram part of the Quantum Leap time travel scheme, you wouldn’t need the actual bodyswap time traveler part at all. You’d already have the safest possible form of time travel! You could remotely visit the past in hologram VR without accidentally stepping on a butterfly, changing winners of wars, dating your own mom, or otherwise screwing up the timeline in all the ways in which time travel scifi portrays. You could safely be an invisible time tourist from home all you wanted.