On the “Virtual Presence” in Visual Experience and Its Ontological Significance

doi:10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2022.03.001

Abstract

Abstract: In the visual experience of virtual reality (VR)， on the one hand， the way in which the VR environment appears to the perceiver by simulating “ambient light” can influence the perceiver's perception of self-presence; on the other hand， the reversibility of the perceiver's visual activity enables the perceiver to perceive the co-existence between himself/herself and the VR environment. The coupling of these two aspects contributes to the formation of “virtual presence”. In the sense of phenomenological ontology， “virtual presence” indicates that the human being and the digital virtual environment constitute the ontological relationship of corporeal “chiasm”. This ontological relationship implies that the human's existential structure of being in the world could be extended in the virtual dimension to point to the possibility of virtual existence， which is already visible in the “Metaverse”.

Key words: virtual reality; presence; ambient light; flesh; virtual existence

CLC Number:

N031

SUO Yin， WEN Chengwei. On the “Virtual Presence” in Visual Experience and Its Ontological Significance[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science), 2022, 24(3): 1-7.

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