The Psychology of Immersive Media: The impact

Can Large-Scale Immersive Experiences Have a Positive Impact on the Planet?

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Interview with Daly by smte.org
“If you can immerse yourself into an experience and a place other than where you are physically, that can be viewed as a type of escapism, and no one can deny the role of escapism in entertainment. So there are different aspects involved with mirror neuron systems that reflect truly personalized immersion. Those would include identification, empathy, communication, disassociation, and, as I mentioned, escapism.”
Habituation as a process : is our relationship to technology that changes over time. For example, he continues, older films feature effects and stunts that no one of the eras in which they were made found crude or fake or simplistic, but which today seem glaringly crude and distracting to audiences who have modern media experiences lodged in their minds.
In immersive media, having that experience allows yourself to be literally ‘immersed’ in what is happening to another person. Not all goals for immersive media are about emotion, but the reason people are excited about the possibilities is that you can potentially experience a stronger level of emotion. Also, there is the well-known connection between emotion and memory via the hippocampus [portion of the brain], as well as emotion being a strong driver for motion, i.e., action which in turn shows how impactful can immersive media be
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