A desire for reality

Everyday life is escaping us. No I'm sorry we're the ones trying to escape our everyday lives. The images that surround us let us dream of a life of luxury and adventure. So when the chance to lead that life seems remote the escape offered by a video game a book or a play is welcome. Our passive consumption of theatre is a thing of the past. The immersive genre now unveils new notions of interaction sharing risk-taking and emotion. By communicating with our senses before our reason it blurs our perception and leaves us uncertain. Immersion blurs the boundaries of theatre and questions its impact on reality. Virtuality fiction and reality intermingle. In a context where screens are omnipresent does fiction take precedence over reality? Studying the immersive medium will enable us to address the notion of the game space: a privileged place of interaction between fiction and reality. By mapping this imagined space we will determine how our fictional lives enrich our real lives.