“If you are there and what appears to be happening is really happening, then this is happening to you!”
This quote speaks on the idea that virtual reality is real. That it’s part of our experience that we are feeling right now, with our physical body. And the experience is truthful and transparent and makes us feel that it’s actually happening.
XR as new media.
In the 90s we had a rise in personal computers. Companies started investing and virtual reality became more viable. It did not become a thing at that time potentially because of economic reasons and technology needs financial support to develop. As well as the fact that technology wasn’t there, it does take time to develop these sorts of hardware. Hardware at the time was clanky and heavy, it would reach high temperatures and it wasn’t viable to create such products.
The rest of the lecture spoke on immersion and the theory behind how one can induce a participant into an immersive experience. As well as how to guide presence. The sound was spoken on but not a considerable amount, I will be taking the theory into my own interpretation. What it did help with was the larger ideas around virtual reality and what it takes to develop content for it.