To Be There, or Not to Be There, that is the Question

摘要

Virtual words, independent of their realizations, let us experience a person's sense of Being There, a form of spatial immersion dubbed presence. Where we are and even who we are is the result of living in the real world as well as a multitude of virtual worlds. This visceral feeling depends on several technical dimensions, which have been widely discussed, including the realism of the virtual environment and the embodiment of oneself and the others. But presence and belonging are preliminary not a question of technique but a question of the provided format, the symbolic spaces and of social interaction. A virtual world is always a managed space and a managed me with all its complications. It is about the basic conceptions of a conditio humana.