IMMERSION
Immersion
Immersion into virtual reality is a metaphoric use of the experience of submersion applied to representation, fiction or simulation. Immersion can also be defined as the state of consciousness where a "visitor" or "immersant" ’s awareness of physical self is transformed by being surrounded in an engrossing environment; often artificial, creating a perception of Presence in a non-physical world. The term is widely used for describing partial or complete suspension of disbelief enabling action or reaction to stimulations encountered in a virtual or artistic environment. The degree to which the virtual or artistic environment faithfully reproduces ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Immersion (virtual reality)
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immersion
Noun
- the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
- the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
- an immersion heater
- a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
- The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion.
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