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Virtual reality as a communication process

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In this work, we consider immersive Virtual Reality (VR) as a communication process between humans, mediated by computer systems, which uses interaction, visualization, and other sensory stimuli to convey information. From this viewpoint, it is relevant to understand how VR can solve a given communication problem, what is therefore the expressive power of VR system, i.e., its ability in establishing the communication, what are the guidelines to design an effective system, and what are the more relevant models of VR applications. Firstly, we try to clarify the notion of reality in Virtual Reality systems and conclude that reality is not an intrinsic characteristic of VR, rather the result of a conventional way of coding information. The purpose of coding is to lead the observer to the conclusion that the VR set is what is called in italian as verisimile (from Latin veri similis), i.e., “similar-to-the-real-thing”. So the creation of an effective VR application is an artifice or an illusion. But in order to avoid an over-reliance on the creativity of the VR designer, we intend to identify a solid ground on which different kinds of VR solutions can be considered in terms of their ability to solve the desired communication objective. To this aim, we will rely on methods derived from rhetoric to semiotics.

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  1. This concept could be confused to that of suspension of disbelief, when a movie viewer or a story reader is brought to consider as perfectly plausible the narrative and the events proposed to him or her, even if absurd or illogical, therefore far from being verisimile.

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This work has been partly funded by project VIRTHUALIS, VI Framework Program, European Community, contract n. 515831-2. Special thanks to Alessandro Giusti, who coordinated the group implementing the industrial plant models.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39, 20135, Milan, Italy

    Daniele Marini, Davide Gadia & Alessandro Rizzi

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39, 20135, Milan, Italy

    Raffaella Folgieri

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Marini, D., Folgieri, R., Gadia, D. et al. Virtual reality as a communication process. Virtual Reality 16, 233–241 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-011-0200-3

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