Immediacy, Hypermediacy and Re-mediation

"Virtual reality is immersive, which means that it is a medium whose purpose is to disappear"(Bolter, 2000, PG. 22)

With this statement and the other text, I have gathered that this means that with users engaging in virtual reality, they have 'disappeared' from their daily lives and are now far more interacted with whatever virtual reality they have chosen. as each viewer of gamer has been given a 'identity' as such when playing as a character, they can become far more emerged in the game play. it gives me the understanding that virtual reality should come as close to real life as possible.

As far as being immersive goes, this story (http://kotaku.com/i-played-the-oculus-rift-for-five-hours-straight-987568701/999890560) tells of a man who was so immersed in reality game play that he had actually forgotten he was in his living room at the time. he said there was even a point when in the game, a character jumped into 'his' warms, he actually raised his arms to catch her. This gives me the impression that this virtual reality game play can be a far more endearing means of engaging yourself with game play.

"The transparent interface is one more manifestation of the need to deny the mediated character of digital technology altogether"(Bolter,2000,PG.24)

I understand that for many of these virtual reality gamers, they are using the computer as a way of surpassing other technologies to bring their view of the world into different realities. In the sense of computers graphics, they have came a long way , but also so has the graphics for Television and even photography. Are they saying that these computer generated graphics are going to surpass older technologies? Hopefully not, because these older technologies such as Television have certain gains with people to engage them with their own 'virtual reality'. people can be immersed with Television just as a gamer can be with the newest shoot-em-up game.



References - Bolter, 2000 -  Remediation: Understanding New Media