VR immersion bypasses traditional screen abstraction
Headsets like the PSVR2 trick the brain stem by overriding proprioception and stereoscopic vision, dropping the human directly into the rendering engine. This absolute immersion feels magical, much like how Quantum mechanics defies macroscopic intuition.1
Footnotes
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Slater, M. (2009). Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments. ↩