Abstract
Virtual reality (VR) literature includes many descriptions of users reacting to a virtual environment in instinctual ways that suggest they believe, at least for a short time, that they were “immersed” and even “present” in the synthetic experience. Following the definitions introduced by Slater, Steed & Chrysanthou: “Presence is a state of consciousness, a state of being [in an environment]…while immersion is related to the quantity and quality of sensory data that is from that environment”.
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Wiederhold, B., Bouchard, S. (2014). Presence. In: Advances in Virtual Reality and Anxiety Disorders. Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-8023-6_2
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