Table of Contents

pp 5-8

Acknowledgements

pp 9-12

Introduction

pp 13-30

Section 1 - Altered States

pp 31-32

1 - Immersive Situativity: Perspectives on Being In/Out of Sync

pp 33-54

2 - Douglas Trumbull and the Technological Aesthetic of Brainstorm

pp 55-80

3 - Dual Cognitive Approach

pp 81-104

4 - Emotional and Immersive Experiences in Films and Games : Looking into the Perceptual Model and Striving for a Motivational Theory

pp 105-122

5 - Interaction and Immersion Logics in Encounters: Coalescence of Bodies in a Liquid Space

pp 123-140

6 - Facing Oneself : Out-of-Body Experience, Immersion, and the Remediation of Cinema through Virtual Reality

pp 141-162

7 - The Time it Takes to Tend Virtual Succulents : Immersing Oneself in a Playthrough of Viridi

pp 163-184

Section 2 - Finding New Frames

pp 185-186

8 - The Many Births of Virtual Reality

pp 187-202

9 - Seeing by Automobility : Protoautomobility, Immersion, the Traveller-Spectator, and the Phantom Ride, 1897–1912

pp 203-222

10 - From Participation to Immersion : Promotional Tactics around Tricked and Dynamic Seats in the Film Theatre

pp 223-244

11 - Surface and Depth : The Picture Plane as a Site of Immersivity in the Digital Age

pp 245-264

12 - “Let’s Cross This Portal Together” : Immersion Mechanisms in VR Performances and Their Current Limitations

pp 265-284

13 - Immersive Materiality and Television Production in The Dark Crystal : Age of Resistance (2019)

pp 285-304

14 - “More Mbappé Than Me?” : Soccer Video Games, Athletic Bodies, and the Performative Displacement

pp 305-322

Section 3 - The Edge of Sense(s)

pp 323-324

15 - Walter Benjamin on the Threshold of Immersion

pp 325-346

16 - Correlations of Immersion and Authenticity in the Experience of Fencing in Hellish Quart and For Honor

pp 347-372

17 - New Heritage Ecologies : Embracing Entanglement and Complexity in Virtual Heritage Immersion

pp 373-392

18 - The Contribution of Narrative Puzzles to Player Challenge-Based Immersion: A Case Study of Abzû

pp 393-416

19 - The Opposite of Elsewhere: Home Video as Virtual Reality

pp 417-434

20 - Video Game Immersion as Bodily Atmospheric Attunement

pp 435-452

Section 4 - Interviews

pp 453-454

21 - Beyond Frontiers : An Interview with Félix Lajeunesse (Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Felix & Paul Studios)

pp 455-462

22 - Producing Intravene: An Experiment in Immersive Audio

pp 463-472