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Hermeneutic Relations in VR: Immersion, Embodiment, Presence and HCI in VR Gaming

Leighton Evans Orcid Logo, Michal Rzeszewski Orcid Logo

HCI in Games: Second International Conference, HCI-Games 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Pages: 23 - 38

Swansea University Author: Leighton Evans Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-030-50164-8_2

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The emergence of Virtual Reality (VR) as a viable consumer medium for gaming offers an opportunity to reconceptualise understandings of immersion, embodiment and presence in gaming. However, many of the discourses and attempts to conceptualise experience in VR games conflate these terms rather than...

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Published in: HCI in Games: Second International Conference, HCI-Games 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings
ISBN: 9783030501631 9783030501648
ISSN: 0302-9743 1611-3349
Published: Cham Springer 2020
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