Response, News, and Observation: Typologies of Communication in VR Documentaries

The combination of virtual reality (VR) technology and documentary style creates VR documentaries with distinctive image characteristics. This kind of image with its special spatial interaction, sense of presence, and immersion counters the one-way cognitive thinking of traditional documentary and reshapes its media properties with VR technology, which in turn generates new perception, identity, emotional experience, and understanding in the context of virtual immersive documentary image dissemination.

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