I'm suspicious of the idea of immersive experiences in virtual spaces. Yes, I know. Don the hat and the gloves and it's a different world. But when you move around virtual worlds you are somewhere different already and to constrain that in any way seems to me potentially harmful.
So it is I wander through the occasional 360 degree art work thinking, well that didn't last long. Have I benefited from the idea of immersion?
Over at ZKM Island this morning in SL I wandered through a piece called You Universe. It is essentially a construction of television test cards that you can enter. The act of entering deconstructs the panels of the object so that you are not fully immersed but have in front of you evidence of where you broke in.
It's well worth watching too when another avatar enters and the shape reconstructs itself. In truth this is an interactive rather than immersive experience. You can find it via the ZKM Website and this is the page you need to go to.
There are some great ideas here - not untypical of the german art ambience. I have to give a talk next week on immersive art and now at least I have a starting point.
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