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HomePresence is defined as the sense of being in an environment.
Many perceptual factors contribute to generating this sense, including input from some or all sensory channels, as well as more mindful attentional, perceptual, and other mental processes that assimilate incoming sensory data with current concerns and past experiences (Gibson, 1966). Presence is closely related to the phenomenon of distal attribution or externalization, which refer to the referencing of our perceptions to an external space beyond the limits of the sensory organs themselves (Loomis, 1992).
‘A “virtual reality” is defined as a real or simulated environment in which a perceiver experiences telepresence.’ (Steuer, 1993: 7)