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simulated and not real at all, visitors can respond as if it is real by eliciting an
emotional response and genuinely engaging with the virtual object. According to
Dixon, “Virtual reality is all about illusion. It's about computer graphics in the
theater of the mind. It's about the use of technology to convince yourself you're
in another reality
:::
” (Dixon
2007
).
17.3
A Moment in the Park
A young skateboarder rolling past circled several times and slowed down long
enough to ask “Is that a computer?” I was surprised by the question, perhaps
some people do not know what this iPad is. I felt like an alien, holding an alien
object, rendering myself an outlander and alien in the world. It was a surprised
considering we were practically on campus. Regardless, standing searching, the
computer looking up at a tree saw an illusion of a heart-shaped object. The balloon
with the image of Lenin raising his finger is pointing towards the sky. The balloon
is there! Lenin is there! Suddenly my heart was pointing to the sky
It is the
arOCCUPY May Day exhibition and the heARt looms with a sense of vulnerability
(see Fig.
17.1
).
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Fig. 17.1
HeARt arOCCUPY May Day 2013. Bloomington, Indiana, USA
