#immersion

#immersion

Neal Stephenson argues that the metaverse is dead, particularly in light of the failure of Meta's Horizon Worlds, which raises significant concerns about the future of virtual reality.

During my week-long binge, I played games that paused their own tutorials to run ads. I saw endless fake X icons and banners that hid the close button under the iPhone's Dynamic Island. Now, I'm not against ads, but I hate it when they feel like a penalty. I'm a gamer, and from what I've seen, PC and console games integrate ads much better. If mobile devs followed suit, mobile games might finally climb out of the mess they're in.

I work intuitively, so moving between architecture, video, gaming and music has evolved organically. I've realised that my practice is really about different forms of immersion, which is a word that gets thrown around a lot. I think of immersion as a state of perception-the point at which you forget that you are fully within the medium. The performance at the Tate Tanks was about the immersion in the present moment that you get with music.

"Battlefield is about pure immersion, it's the sound, the spectacle, the visual experience," he said. "Battlefield 3 and 4, they're early games. The hardware they ran on was a limiting factor."

In College Football 26's presentation overhaul, CFB 26 introduces a realistic lighting system that reflects the actual regional and seasonal time of day across various locations.