Keogh: “Touching the Looking Glass” Keogh argues that mobile games is the slicing of perception across actual and, virtual. Hint the title “Touching the Looking Glass” so basically when your walking up the street playing a game on your mobile device the actual would be the street that your walking on and, the virtual would be the game that you’re playing on your phone. You have to have your perception sliced between both in order for it to work. There’s never 100 percent in both worlds for example you can’t drive and play candy crush your going to crash or lose in the game. If you are playing candy crush and driving you will never be 100 percent focused on either one. You have to zone in and, out of the actual world and, the virtual world.
Oscillation is caused by your needs this determines how often you go back in forth swaying from one world to another.
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I think this concept is incredibly interesting, specifically because of how it relates to and negates the idea of the magic circle. The magic circle is supposed to be a space completely separated from reality, where our actions are not governed by the same rules and don’t have any real life consequences. If you are never fully immersed in the world of the game, then the magic circle cannot exist. There is no separation between worlds when you are playing games, especially mobile games. It could be argued that console and VR games immerse you fully into the game, but it is very hard to say the same thing for things like mobile games and handheld console games like the Switch or DS because the screens are so much smaller, the graphics tend to be worse, and you are typically playing these games while on the go/while focusing on something else.
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I think its interesting that you talk about not being able to be 100% in either worlds and be able to focus and the differences between the actual and the physical reality that you’re living in and the virtual world that you’re experiencing on your phone. oscillation is an interesting topic because of how you are aware of you going in and out of the different worlds.
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