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Immersive Video may induce strong self-location despite the absence of avatar embodiment, agency, and body ownership.
Bodyless Presence: Reconsidering the Minimal Self in Immersive Video
TOIDA Koichi, Ph.D. (MESON, Inc.)
Minimal Self
Minimal Self
In Immersive Video, agency, body ownership, and embodiment are attenuated.
Yet, through a first-person perspective and head movements, self-location and Presence can still emerge.
The viewer lacks an operative body within the recorded environment, but the perceptual field remains organised around a situated point of view.
This bodyless form of self-location is what this study calls Bodyless Presence.
Case: 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend in Apple Immersive Video
1. Ordinary Viewing
1. Ordinary Viewing
Video
The scene is experienced from a stable viewpoint beneath the basket.
Internal state
Self-location is anchored within the video space, and Presence is maintained.
2. Disruption
2. Disruption
Video
The camera viewpoint, fixed to the basket structure, is violently shaken by the impact of a dunk.
Internal state
Viewpoint stability is disrupted, producing a temporary destabilisation of self-location and Presence.
3. Re-stabilisation
3. Re-stabilisation
Video
The shaking subsides, and the spatial relation between the court, players, and viewpoint becomes stable again.
Internal state
Self-location is re-anchored, and Presence is re-stabilised.
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