A successful embodiment in a virtual entity hence relies on the subject’s ability to coordinate her cognitive self-representation with the modeled representation of the digitally simulated body at her disposal.
This first concept is usefully supplemented by the notion of avatar embodiment, applicable whenever the mind processes the properties of the virtual body in the same way as those of the physical body (Kilteni et al. In this paper, avatar immersion is defined as a user’s ability to forget their avatar, viewed as a transparent vehicle for actions and motor sensations. The mental processes at work in what Perény (2015) has described as avatar immersion-or “avatar embodiment,” in the sense of being incarnated in a virtual body-are crucial to understating how the appropriation of a digital body plays out.
Introduction: the cognitive take on avatar immersion and embodimentġ Present-day virtual reality experiences predominantly make use of user-avatars designed to enhance their immersive potential.
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