Lived-Body Experiences in Virtual Reality

A Phenomenology of the Virtual Body

• Author(s): Zeynep Akbal,
• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Pages: 212
• ISBN_10: 3839466768
  ISBN_13: 9783839466766
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Media Studies , Computers / Social Aspects , Education / Research , History / Social History , Philosophy / General , Philosophy / Aesthetics , Philosophy / Epistemology , Philosophy / History & Surveys / General , Philosophy / Metaphysics , Philosophy / Mind & Body , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern , Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology , Philosophy / Social , Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis , Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Sociology / General , Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects , Philosophy / Political , Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects ,

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What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can be actualized in virtual environments? Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body and situates the results in context with existing theories in media sciences and the phenomenology of bodily perception. This study presents VR technology as a tool that can be used to more closely examine and study the fundamental intersections of the humanities and the natural sciences that explore the nature of perception.