Something I should have probably addressed in the article but didn't get to it for brevity: there are at least two kinds of immersion, and people tend to conflate them. (I'm not immune to this.)
There's intellectual immersion. Flow. You can be intellectually immersed reading a book or playing chess.
Then there's sensory immersion. Put a VR on, you're immersed this way.
There's intellectual immersion. Flow. You can be intellectually immersed reading a book or playing chess.
Then there's sensory immersion. Put a VR on, you're immersed this way.