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  People and Places Beyond Reach: Invisible Stories as Immersive Devices in Contemporary Video Games

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  Pawel Frelik Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

  September 15, 2017

  into full visibility. There is also at least one instance of such marginalia that becomes ... consequential: collecting at least 10 pieces of Asari Matriarch Dilinaga’s writings in Mass Effect, combined with ...
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  ARP: Absorbing red photons 2016

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  Michelle Atherton Sheffield Hallam University

  February 14, 2018

  beginning of ARP the audience is confronted by a totally black screen and then the submersible’s headlights ...
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  Multiple Perspectives on Player Immersion

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  ryan m. moeller utah state university

  April 15, 2009

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  a player's input (see what is the game factor?). bryan mnemonic defines immersion, at least in part, as the ...
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  "C'mere, stay": Immersion as Immergence, Pervasion, and Abeyance

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  Judd Ruggill University of Arizona

  April 13, 2009

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  contradictory (or at least contiguous) states. On the one hand, immersion denotes the idea of envelopment, of ...
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  "Are You Brave Enough?:" On Jaws and the Theming of Water

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  Carter Moulton Northwestern University

  October 15, 2020

  practice dates back to at least 1985, when a student fundraiser at Indiana University held a screening of ...
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  Virtual Reality is a weird machine

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  Vicki Williams University of Birmingham

  April 03, 2019

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  Virtual Reality is a weird machine Virtual Reality immersion weird affect and embodiment Ontology Curator's Note Virtual reality is weird. By its very nature, VR asks users to immerse themselves in a digitally simulated “world” and think of it as rea ...
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  Performing Stardom

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  James Harvey-Davitt Anglia Ruskin University

  April 21, 2015

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  Performing Stardom stars spectatorship Movies about Movies intertextuality immersion Alienation Curator's Note A tendency has appeared across several recent films whereby we see stars playing actors who – during overtly performative moments – allude ...