On the Spot: The Double Immersion of Virtual Reality

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

Authors

Since its invention, virtual reality has promised strictly localized and simultaneously boundless mobility: It gives the user the impression of being in a whole new world while remaining in the same place and time. This paradox strips distant and simulated locations of their sense of danger and their exclusiveness, while eliminating the user's need to actually travel to reach them. You can practice flying a fighter jet or driving a tank without putting passengers and equipment at risk; you can engage in combat without actually risking your life; You can relax in a tropical paradise without having to fly to get there; You can fly through buildings without running the risk of falling-and all this while staying put. The cybernauts chase their phantasms from within a cube with an edge length of one meter, as if they were figures in a painting by Francis Bacon. Vir-tual reality is the only technologically possible method of immersing into com-puter worlds that remains thoroughly paradoxical. How this is possible and where this leads are the focus of this essay.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImmersion in the Visual Arts and Media
EditorsFabienne Liptay
Number of pages10
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherRodopi
Publication date30.10.2015
Pages204 - 213
ISBN (print)978-90-04-30819-0
ISBN (electronic)978-90-04-30823-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30.10.2015

Recently viewed

Researchers

  1. Johannes Thesing

Publications

  1. Improving the end-of-life management of solar panels in Germany
  2. Wuthering heights
  3. Schwerpunktbereich - Einführung in das Planfeststellungsrecht [Part 1]
  4. Julius Meier-Graefe -" a laconic art historian"
  5. Entrepreneurship Training and Transfer
  6. Plutella xylostella (L.) infestations at varying temperatures induce the emission of specific volatile blends by Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh
  7. Lurz, Robert W. Mindreading Animals, MIT Press, 2011
  8. Informationspotentiale
  9. Fortsetzung Kunstvermittlung
  10. Nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Hochschullehre
  11. Femina Subtetrix: A Feminist Look at the APACA Textile Factory
  12. Planetary Integrity
  13. The Energy Security of Lithuania
  14. Strategic environmental assessment for the utilization of offshore wind energy
  15. Gesellschaftliche Raumverhältnisse
  16. Management of options for sustainable waste management in Switzerland
  17. Landschaft
  18. Performance improvement through Human Resource Management
  19. Weltnomos der Zivilgesellschaft und Normalisierung des Krieges
  20. Palynological record of the Quaternary deposits of Garding-2 research drill core, North-west Germany.
  21. Soil and plant nitrogen pools as related to plant diversity in an experimental grassland
  22. Performance Saga: Performances, Interviews, Ereignisse
  23. Devianz und Delinquenz
  24. Vergessene Landwirtschaft
  25. Was steckt hinter der mysteriösen Flasche?
  26. Die Kicker-Stecktabelle
  27. Translating pictures (1999)
  28. IMAGE MATCH
  29. The citizens forest model
  30. Der politische Konvertit als Fürsprecher seiner selbst
  31. Zu groß für Einen
  32. Book Review: Organizations: A Systems Approach, S. Kühl. Farnham: Gower Publishing, 2013. 195 pp. ISBN 9781472413413.
  33. A unique nest-protection strategy in a new species of spider wasp
  34. In der Zone der nächsten Entwicklung
  35. Markteintritte, Marktaustritte und Produktivität
  36. Vom Rand ins Zentrum
  37. Conditio humana – eine politische Kategorie
  38. Von der Profession zur Organisation
  39. Logistische Grenzlandschaften
  40. Berufsprofile in der IT-Beratung