Harun Farocki, Serious Games III (Immersion) (Review)

• Main Author: Natasha Eves
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2018-11-01
• Series: Refract
• Subjects: virtual reality, documentary film, U.S. military, digital media, memory
• Online Access: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/26t834v1

<span id="docs-internal-guid-15dcde84-7fff-449e-8606-44ce921732b2"><span>Immersion</span><span> is the third of four documentaries by Harun Farocki that explores the use of video games in the U.S. military. The first film demonstrates training software in which a young soldier called Watson is killed; the second, a live action role play training exercise; the third, virtual reality (VR) immersion therapy; and the final film compares these pre- and post-war simulated environments side by side. </span><span>The demonstration of the virtual reality software </span><span>Virtual Iraq </span><span>employed in Farocki’s film </span><span>Immersion</span><span> will be reviewed here.</span></span>