The Immersion Project

Robbie Cooper explores the potential of interactive immersive environments. See how video gamers react as they play some of the industry's best selling - and controversial - video games.

Immersion Project

Robbie Cooper, a British-born photo journalist based in New York, has embarked on an art project which captures the gurning and, at times, lifeless stares of gamers as they play violent videogames.

The project raises questions about the effect on players of highly immersive virtual worlds in video games, including well known titles such as Star Wars Battlefront and Grand Theft Auto.

Bold topics such as censorship and classification are all offered up for discussion by Copper’s work, but so too are issues about the positive uses of immersive environments.

For example, how can we exploit these clearly engaging environments for e-learning and training?

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Published: 04 Dec 2008

Tags: E learning

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