Human Bodies, Virtual Spaces

Persuading Presence in Virtual Reality Games

Elizabeth Caravella (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

178 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-5818-0 (ISBN)

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Offers a re-theorizing of virtual reality through the lens of embodiment and the human experience, rather than tying theory to current technology and/or hardware capabilities.

This book offers a corrective to the trend in virtual reality studies that overemphasizes the role of hardware technology and visual/auditory fidelity as the sole means of establishing users’ sense of presence, and instead offers a more holistic, embodied, and human-focused means of understanding presence (through immersion, interactivity, and imagination) in virtual reality. The main questions tackled in this book address the role of the body in VR experiences, and how our bodies' navigation of these spaces influence users’ sense of presence in such experiences.

Elizabeth (Beth) Caravella is an Assistant Professor at York University,

List of Tables
About the Author
Introduction: Why Study Presence in Virtual Reality Games?
1. Virtual Reality Through Time and Space
2. Dimensionality & Embodiment in Virtual Reality Games
3. Immersion & Presence in Rhythm Games
4. Interactivity & Procedural Rhetoric
5. Imagination, Affect, & Emotional Engagement
Conclusion: Persuading Presence as a Recursive Process

Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2025
Zusatzinfo	3 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-5818-0 / 9798765158180
Zustand	Neuware