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In most VR experiences, the visual sense dominates other modes of sensoryinput, encouraging non-visual senses to respond as if the visual were real. Thesimulated visual world thus becomes a sort of felt actuality, where the'actual' physical body and environment can 'drop away', opening uppossibilities for designing entirely new kinds of experience. Most VRexperiences place visual sensory input (of the simulated environment) in theperceptual foreground, and the physical body in the background. In whatfollows, we discuss methods for resolving the apparent tension which arisesfrom VR's prioritization of visual perception. We specifically aim tounderstand how somatic techniques encouraging participants to 'attend to theirattention' enable them to access more subtle aspects of sensory phenomena in aVR experience, bound neither by rigid definitions of vision-based virtualitynor body-based corporeality. During a series of workshops, we implementedexperimental somatic-dance practices to better understand perceptual andimaginative subtleties that arise for participants whilst they are embedded ina multi-person VR framework. Our preliminary observations suggest that somaticmethods can be used to design VR experiences which enable (i) a tactile qualityor felt sense of phenomena in the virtual environment (VE), (ii) lingeringimpacts on participant imagination even after the VR headset is taken off, and(iii) an expansion of imaginative potential.

Somatic Practices for Understanding Real, Imagined, and Virtual Realities