Immersion principle

When used to describe media, immersion is the replacement of physical reality with virtual reality (Cummings & Bailenson, 2016), and educational media have varying levels of immersion (Figure 1). Immersive learning is advantageous for simulating situations that are physically impossible, counterproductive, too dangerous, or too expensive in the real world (Bailenson, 2018; Johnson-Glenberg, 2019; Makransky et al., 2020).