Quotes About Immersion

I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an East London borough that is about 38% Muslim, among the highest in the U.K. As I walked down Whitechapel Road, the adhan, or call to prayer, echoed through the neighborhood.

When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you're in wardrobe, and then you're just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you're doing, and it's this great back and forth. Because you've done all this research, you can use some of it or throw a lot of it out. You can get lost in it.

Garrison Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' books create a world I can immerse myself in over and over. I love the deadpan humour, the warmth, and the wonderful characters in The Sidetrack Tap. I discovered them when I was about 30, starting with 'Leaving Home' and 'We Are Still Married,' and fell in love with the place and those flat Midwestern vowels.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

'Star Wars' is so accessible that, at any point, you can sort of jump in and become immersed in it.

What I eventually came to understand, about San Francisco, was that I was immersed in beauty and barred from seeing it.

giving herself up to the magic

The whole point of getting engrossed in something that interests you, is that you dissolve into it, the more the intensity...the more you become vapor - you dissolve. In fact, there is no you to judge, to see... only emptiness within, that is the whole purpose of life... at least my life!"

By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.

By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

I feel I know Cape Town very well now having been there twice and for six weeks at a time.

Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will.

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

Film is a medium where the audience gives you 100 per cent.

For filmmakers that want to have certain control, there are certain things you can't do in VR.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.