Towards a full body narrative: a communicational approach to techno-interactions in virtual reality

• Main Author: Eduardo Zilles Borba
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora 2020-04-01
• Series: Lumina
• Subjects: virtual reality; communicational process; multisensory interfaces; materialities of communication; digital narratives
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/lumina/article/view/30019

The essay approaches the sociocultural and technological issues linked to the communicational process that exists in the user’s relationship with immersive digital environments, specifically: Virtual Reality (VR). A critical look at VR as a communication interface is launched, precisely because it indicates assumptions of enhancing the creation of meanings on media surfaces by leveraging multisensory stimuli that cause the immersion of individual’s body in a 360° framed experience. To instigate the problematization about transformations resulting from these techno-experience, empirical explorations are conducted to Brazilian immersive environments. In addition, data are qualitatively analyzed based on Kerckhove, Gumbrecht and Flusser and others ideas to illuminate the debate of technical-images, digital narratives and appropriations on technological devices, media languages and coding in the digital age.