vicarious

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Vicarious trauma happens when you take in stories or media that touch on “fight or flight” reactions in your own body.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

The QA department at Blizzard Albany, the studio formerly known as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2’s Vicarious Visions, has become the second QA department within Activision Blizzard to organize a union.

From The Verge • Jul. 19, 2022

Mr. Bala founded Vicarious Visions, a development studio in Menands, N.Y., with his brother in the early 1990s, grew it into a 200-person company and sold it to Activision in 2005 for $5.3 million.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2018

The methods that Vicarious and Google used were different; they allowed the systems to learn on their own, albeit in a narrow field.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2017

Vicarious realization may save the soul, but it can never fill the place of reality.

From Woman in Modern Society by Barnes, Earl