The Games Institute acknowledges that we are living and working on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (also known as Neutral), Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.
“At the heart of the enjoyment of games is the very real but hard-to-define gaming experience, something which combines the related concepts of "immersion", "optical experience", "presence", and "flow."
Welcome to IMMERSe!
The overarching goal of the network was to build a strategic games research network for an eight-year period, but once it got started IMMERSe became way more than that. IMMERSe represents a fully multidisciplinary, multimodal, multi-thematic, multi-institutional network. In all products and processes of IMMERSe, these “multi” identities interact with one another to elevate the quality and depth of the work. The legacy of IMMERSe is a showcase of games research that was profoundly improved by integrating “multi” approaches.
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Descriptions of what the IMMERSe network is can only begin to touch the surface of its true nature. In fact, we believe that the truth of the network comes through in the research and the many wonderful events, publications, and projects IMMERSe researchers created over the years. We urge you to explore the website to discover for yourself.
The IMMERSe Network was a partnership between six academic institutions: