Tag: Presence
Body representation in VR
This is a summary of Mel Slater‘s keynote at JVRC 2011, entitled “Body representation in Immersive Virtual Reality”. M. Slater started his talk by stating that the goal of VR is that people act as if what they’re…
Read More »What is VR ?
Back at Laval Virtual, I was struck about how many people say they’re doing VR where, according to my own (extremist) definition, it wasn’t even remotely VR ! Even some high rank scientists tried to promote their (commercial)…
Read More »Immersion, Place Illusion and Plausibility
Mel Slater, guru of the concept of presence, has just released a paper explaining his theories about immersion and presence. (Warning: You really have to be wide awake to read it =) He is explaining the concepts of…
Read More »VR in Marseille
The CRVM , VR research center in sunny Marseille, south of France, had the greatest idea of publishing lots of the videos of their work (in french). (I’m sure you can guess what software they’re using..) Here are…
Read More »Why gesture gives you more immersion ?
Here’s an interesting theory, explained for the Wii : “How the Nintendo Wii will get you emotionally invested in video games.” “we have to revisit an old theory of emotion, first proposed by the great American psychologist and…
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