Meaning of Presence
Presence is the psychological sense of being there in the environment specified by the displays.
a high degree of presence in the VE should lead to the participant experiencing objects and processes in the virtual world as (temporarily) more the presenting reality than the real world in which the VE experience is actually embedded.
- A correlate of this is that the participant should exhibit behaviours that are the same as those they would carry out in similar circumstances in everyday reality.
The VE experience - should be more like visiting a place, rather than like seeing images designating a place