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Presence and Immersion

Why do people perceive the world differently depending on how immersed they feel in an artificially-created world?

Researchers Cedar Riener

Collaborators Randy Pausch and the Stage3 Research Group

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Experiments
Fear of heights in VR worlds

Publications Riener, C. & Proffitt, D. (2002). Quantifying spatial presence. Fifth Annual International Workshop on Presence (pp. 345-352).

Yang, T. L., Dixon, M. W., & Proffitt, D. R. (1999). Seeing big things: Overestimation of heights is greater for real objects than for objects in pictures. Perception. 28, 445-467.
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