Nowhere to turn: feeling present in virtual reality is far from easy (Image: Peter Earl McCollough/The New York Times/Redux /eyevine)
THEY will tell you, the artists and engineers who work with this gear, that virtual realities are digital environmental simulations, accessed through wearable interfaces, and made realistic – or realistic enough – to steal us away from the real world.
I can attest to that. After several days sampling some of the latest virtual environments available in the UK, I found that reality righted itself rather slowly.
Along the way, however, I came across a question that seemed to get to the…
