A self-report measure of presence yielded two factors. It appears the being in the virtual environment is not equivalent to not being in the physical environment. This article examines virtual reality communications media. Some forms of VR, for example immersive virtual reality, literally situate the user inside an informed computational space. The essence of VR is the inclusive relationship between the participant and the virtual environment.
Communication takes place through direct experience in the immersive, digital environment.
Thus, these environments may directly implicate what we can say about our very ability to know, that is, about consciousness itself. VR directs our attention to the nature of reality by directing our attention to consciousness as the experience of being.