This book offers a much-needed corrective to the technology-obsessed discourse surrounding virtual reality. Elizabeth Caravella demonstrates how our sense of "presence" emerges from the complex interplay between our embodied movements, spatial awareness, and the procedural design of virtual experiences themselves. Her framework examining immersion, interactivity, and imagination offers both scholars and VR designers practical insights for creating more meaningful and accessible virtual experiences.

Jason Tham, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, USA

Elizabeth Caravella provides an important contribution to digital rhetoric by showing that presence in VR can be enacted through the persuasive power of procedural rhetorics; in doing so, she also advances our understanding of the critical intersections of the physical and the embodied that moves us beyond a simplified tech-centric understanding of presence.

Douglas Eyman, Associate Professor, George Mason University, USA