Immersion is the state of consciousness where an immersant's awareness of physical self is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment; often artificial
Immersion of something in a liquid means putting it into the liquid so that it is completely covered. The wood had become swollen from prolonged immersion
The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion
The feeling of presence, of 'being there', surrounded by space and interacting with available objects The point of view in the immersive world is omni-directional Immersion is enveloping, a 360 degree surround, that is physical rather than cognitive For Joseph Nechvatal, immersion in a Virtual Reality work implies a unified total space, an homogeneous world without external distraction, striving to be a harmonious whole He identifies 'two grades of immersion: (1) cocooning and (2) expanding within which, when these two directions of psychic space cooperate we feel our bodies becoming subliminal, immersed in an extensive topophilia an inner immensity where we realise our limitations along with our desires for expansion '