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one way or another gently causes the immersant to change direction. This biofeedback method of navigating Osmose was developed because Davies wanted to "reaffirm the priority of 'being in the world' compared with 'doing' things in it or to it." Davies spent many years researching light and space before creating
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motion sensors. The world is generated by an SGI Supercomputer. Breathing itself became the "motor" for the immersant to move through the virtual environment. Breathing out causes the immersant to feel as if they are sinking and breathing in causes them to have the sensation of floating up. Leaning
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as art, and adding temporal elements (day/night cycles) to the piece. Davies describes both works, saying, "I see as a means of return, i.e., of facilitating a temporary release from our habitual perceptions and culturally-biased assumptions about being in the world, to enable us, however
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3D grid that the immersant would be able to travel through and "visit" twelve different world-spaces based on "metaphorical aspects of nature." An immersant entered the world of
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came from a time when she and fellow divers were waiting to encounter sharks. While in the water, she felt that she could "slip into an altered state of consciousness."
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