Quotes About Immersion

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

Virtual reality sort of encloses and immerses the person into an experience that can be really cool but probably has a lower commercial interest over time. Less people will be interested in that, but there are some really cool areas there for education and gaming that we have a lot of interest in.

Virtual reality is extremely exciting. We have the biggest opportunity in sports when you talk about the possibility of bringing fans inside a car going nearly 200 miles-per-hour.

Personally, I'm kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of 'Ready Player One.'

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

Virtual reality, to me, seems to have a number of different tiers. Entry-level-tier VR is this experience: on a phone, some simple head-tracking, and some quick and dirty, game-engine-quality stuff.

The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.

Much of the excitement about virtual reality has come from the gaming community.

When Oculus adds hand controllers that will make tools, swords, and guns work better in virtual reality, you'll be able to reach out and use your virtual sword. It will make things even more interactive.

We believe as people share experiences virtually, their avatars should have the ability to express a full range of emotions.

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

There are things you can get in that physical experience you cannot get virtually.

The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

It's fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well, an exciting scene on the page will actually have a physical effect on the reader - your heart will beat faster, your adrenaline will start to flow.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

It were the sort of mist that soaked into your flesh, into your being, so it were like you were one with it...

absorbed she no longer existed. She'd finally absorbed herself.

the fact that I'd really like to be reading Persuasion right now instead of latticing pies, the fact that I never seem to get past Anne's first reunion with Captain Wentworth lately, because Jake interrupts, the fact that all the older kids were the same, the fact that I have to hide out like Anne Frank almost, to read anything, the fact that I should have a little closet to go to, with a chair, a lamp, and a lock on the door, the fact that I guess it's called a bathroom,

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

A critical lesson I learned is that we have to make sure all our employees, particularly new hires, have a full immersion in our culture.

I'm the kind of person that likes what I'm doing when I'm doing it.

I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.