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Maybe it's somehow like uncanny valley? It gets too realistic, but is not real, so it's disturbing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley http://en.wikip

• phn 14y ago
  I came here to say something like this. I think that sometimes, the fact that the medium you are using is not perfect/too realistic makes your imagination do a lot of the work, and that makes it easier to be immersed in the experience you are having. That is why I jump into immersion really quickly when playing Mario or even more so reading a book, but a game like Skyrim has a really hard time hooking me in. I think realism may in some cases be a kind of a red herring when striving for immersion. For example, I, as a programmer, can be completely immersed in what I am doing without my text editor being "realistic" (whatever a realistic text editor could be :) ). I think that the state of "flow" and the immersion in some kind of experience (movie, game, book) go hand-in-hand.