Introduction

VR and the dramatic theatre: are they fellow creatures?

“…The VR world offers another medium in which we can get up close and personal with human beings in their moments of soul-searching, emotional turmoil, terror, and joy. This striving for immersion in a momentary experience of intimacy is identified by Chatzichristodoulou and Zerihan (2012) as a key requirement for contemporary audiences and viewers. Though the static camera in the centre of the action preserves a theatrical distance from the actor when such moments are choreographed away from the centre, it is possible as Vlaanderen notes, to have directors and performers create a VR version of the close-up by increasing the character's proximity to the camera.…”