Virtual Reality Gaming - by Leighton Evans (Hardcover)

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This volume contains an Open Access Chapter Offering a comprehensive and research-oriented survey of the emergence of virtual reality (VR) into the gaming mainstream, Virtual Reality Gaming delves into the complexities of VR gaming, emphasising immersion, embodiment, and player presence.
About the Author: Leighton Evans is an Associate Professor of Media Theory at Swansea University.
216 Pages
Social Science, Sociology

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This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Offering a comprehensive and research-oriented survey of the complexities of VR gaming, emphasising immersion, embodiment, and player presence.

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This volume contains an Open Access Chapter

Offering a comprehensive and research-oriented survey of the emergence of virtual reality (VR) into the gaming mainstream, Virtual Reality Gaming delves into the complexities of VR gaming, emphasising immersion, embodiment, and player presence.

As the first study to critically assess and systematically investigate the phenomenon of VR Gaming through the tripartite lens of embodiment, presence, and immersion, established and emerging voices in the field discuss the unique aspects of VR games and the challenges they present to researchers and designers with regards to re-conceptualising the relationship between system, player and game play - in essence, a reconsideration of the human-computer interface (HCI) of gaming. Each chapter develops the existing scholarship on all these areas, creating a discourse on each element of embodiment, presence, and immersion that will improve the understanding of all these concepts in the context of gaming and VR.

A major contribution to the fields of gaming, HCI, VR and media studies, Virtual Reality Gaming is of interest not only to scholars, students and academics researching within this area, but also to practitioners and professionals in the gaming industry.

About the Author

Leighton Evans is an Associate Professor of Media Theory at Swansea University. Leighton's research background is in the Philosophy of Technology and digital media, and he has published work on social media, location-based social networking, phenomenology, virtual reality, augmented reality, smart cities and gaming. Leighton's primary research interests lie in the transformation of natural phenomena into data and digital environments through digital technologies, and how this transformation leads to a normalisation of the digital in everyday life.

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Weight: 1.01 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Sub-Genre: Sociology

Genre: Social Science

Number of Pages: 216

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Theme: General

Format: Hardcover

Author: Leighton Evans

Language: English

Street Date: February 21, 2025

TCIN: 1002817395

UPC: 9781835493779

Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-8834

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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