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Magic and Immersion in VR

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2020)

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The rise of the notion of “immersion”, thanks to interactive VR productions, provokes creators and experiencers to think of new design frameworks. The concept of immersion is frequently mentioned together with the notion of illusion. In this paper I will outline a way to think of the sense of immersion in VR that is based on the science of magic. Based on this particular view of immersion as a magical experiment I will present an outline of a possible parallel between experiencing immersion in VR and in a magic trick.

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  1. Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Zugligeti Street 9-25, Budapest, Hungary

    Ágnes Karolina Bakk

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Bakk, Á.K. (2020). Magic and Immersion in VR. In: Bosser, AG., Millard, D.E., Hargood, C. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12497. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_29

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