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dc.contributor.authorStudt, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-17T15:30:11Z
dc.date.available2021-05-17T15:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier273979915
dc.identifierf8933cbe-b378-427e-909f-a40aa89bf579
dc.identifier85106273561
dc.identifier000649614300001
dc.identifier.citationStudt , E 2021 , ' Virtual reality documentaries and the illusion of presence ' , Studies in Documentary Film , vol. 15 , no. 2 , pp. 175-185 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2021.1923147en
dc.identifier.issn1750-3280
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23209
dc.description.abstractI argue that virtual reality (VR) documentaries mandate that users employ a fictional attitude toward their presence in a virtual environment (VE) for the purpose of engaging with nonfictional content. The most salient feature of VR is that VR users typically feel as though their bodies were present in a VE. This paper explores presence in VR as a perceptual illusion facilitated by certain technological features. Drawing on Kendall Walton’s concept of fiction, I argue that the illusion of presence in VR also requires a fictional attitude that VR users employ when imagining themselves in a VE. In the case of VR documentaries, while users’ attitude in regards to the feeling of presence is best characterized as make-belief, they nevertheless employ an attitude of belief in regards to the content of the documentary and accept this content as nonfictional.
dc.format.extent12
dc.format.extent1150364
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofStudies in Documentary Filmen
dc.subjectVirtual realityen
dc.subjectNonfictionen
dc.subjectFictionen
dc.subjectDocumentaryen
dc.subjectPresenceen
dc.subjectIllusionen
dc.subjectPN1990 Broadcastingen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectNISen
dc.subject.lccPN1990en
dc.titleVirtual reality documentaries and the illusion of presenceen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17503280.2021.1923147
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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