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Jeanyoon Choi (b.1999) is a Computational Artist researching in interconnectivity and complexity through Multi-Device Web Artworks.

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Simple Interaction-based Immersiveness

2024-05-02

Immersion is usually discussed through AR and VR: meticulously constructed three-dimensional environments, realistic images and high-fidelity interactions. Much of that discussion treats immersion as a successful reconstruction of reality.

I am interested in embodiment and connection to the physical situation. A sophisticated scene may support them, but so might an extremely simple interaction. In some VR works, complicated controls seem to pull me away from the world rather than draw me into it.

What if the starting point were a gesture anyone immediately understands, repeated and amplified across several channels? A simple, almost Dadaist interaction could become spatially consequential.

Take the mouse. Moving it already rotates viewpoints in games and three-dimensional websites. But what if the cursor itself were amplified across a room? One movement on one device could change twenty screens at once. The familiar gesture would acquire an exaggerated audiovisual presence and a palpable sense of agency. Could that be immersive without pretending to be realistic?

Three.js OrbitControls suggests another starting point. What happens to rotation and panning when their effects are distributed across multiple screens rather than contained within one viewport?

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