What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How
do subject-object relations occur and can be actualized in virtual environments? Zeynep Akbal
explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body
and situates the results in context with existing theories in media sciences and the
phenomenology of bodily perception. This study presents VR technology as a tool that can be
used to more closely examine and study the fundamental intersections of the humanities and the
natural sciences that explore the nature of perception.
