The German philosopher Schopenhauer opines that great art has the power to pull its viewer from the real world and become a part of the art. Virtual reality makes it all the much easier to achieve this objective by doing away with the traditional chasm between the passive viewer and the art object. Several works of virtual art have been created - here are some examples. A virtual theater with two participants in a kabuki play see their own representations on the screen as graphical images. By selecting different poetry associated with the play, they can select different endings.
Fractals are mathematical representations of repititive elements of compound events or objects.
Using Sense8's VR tools, artist Robert McFadden has created a piece called 'Picture Yourself In Fiction' - a vast empty box with no top or bottom in which the inner and outer panels of a floating cube are covered with scanned photographs of the artist's body. As the participant passes near the panels, digitized samples of his poetry are triggered and audibly played. Space itself distorts and loops back on the participant as they move about. At a future date, emotions that are considered intangible like love, hate and jealousy can be quantified by shapes and sizes that float into the virtual world. Other psychedelic scenes like hearing colors or seeing sounds, which are experienced by taking drugs like LSD and marijuana too can be experienced.