# voorism or virtual game tourism consider the metaphor of "voorism": the live use of sticky virtual video game cameras (v1.0) like twitch tv as a game - using virtual video cameras (like in gmod) and treating (/distributed) games / realtime scientist data persistently - with an ability to literally play the pov output as a real space (ala portal) scientists use voorism recreationally for role play as a gonzo journalist taking literal 3d slices of the action whereas the cameras in gmod are static and regular video game tourism only takes snapshots "voorcams" are dynamic and playable voorism means multiple simultaneous data feeds from the same game-spaces monitored by virtual cameras creating a playable simulation // video here elements of voorism **+** video game tourism **+** big data / clouds **+** heat maps **+** video game demo files **+** screenshotting **+** #fakedev mode **+** .jam vignettes virtual tourism links **+** enwandrews **+** virtualgeographic **+** josh taylor photography **+** virtual reality photography **+** photo play & playing photos **+** soft television // republic of bob