The Immersive Computing Stack
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The Immersive Computing Stack
Layers of Our Human-Digital Experience
A personal framework for understanding immersive computing through layered interaction. Each layer simplifies a vast topic, inviting exploration and deeper reflection on the evolving nature of human-computer experience.
Physical Reality
The Grounded Substrate
The tangible, sensory-rich world we inhabit. The baseline through which all other layers are filtered and made real.
Augmented Reality
The Layered Lens
A bridge between the digital and physical. Overlays of context, assistance, or fantasy woven atop the real world.
Virtual Reality
The Constructed Escape
A rupture in space where the body leaves the known and enters the imagined. Built pixel by pixel, intention by intention.
Transactional Layer
The Flow of Value
The layer where ownership, trade, and digital economies form the basis of social contracts and creative exchange.
Networked Identity
The Mirror Across Platforms
Selfhood stretched across networks, avatars, handles, and profiles. Who you are when the interfaces observe.
Agentic Systems
The Responsive Mind
Systems that observe, learn, and act. Proxies of intention and autonomy shaping action and augmentation.
The Phantom Layer
The Haunting Presence
The persistent echo of digital traces. Invisible yet felt. Where algorithms remember more than we do.
Collective Intelligence
The Emergent Mind
Ideas that grow beyond the individual. Swarms of thought, co-creation, shared design, and distributed cognition.
The Dream Layer
The Realm of Myth
The poetic and surreal dimension. Where symbols rule and the boundaries of meaning dissolve into wonder.
Composite Experiences
The Blended Field
Where layers intersect and stack—VR with agents, AR with value, the dream with the network. The stack as medium.
Virtual Reality
The Constructed Escape
Close your eyes.
Step inside.
This is not an overlay. It’s a rupture.
A tear in space where the body leaves the known and finds the imagined.
Here, walls can breathe. Rooms can fly.
You are no longer where you are and that is the point.
VR is the sovereign dream.
Built pixel by pixel. Intention by intention.
It’s not just immersive, it’s generative.
In this layer, the rules are up for negotiation.
So is the self.
You don’t just explore the space.
You become part of its grammar.
But even in this fantasy, old questions remain:
Who shaped this world?
And what parts of you were left behind?
What is it
A fully synthetic world where physical reality is replaced or abstracted. A departure from the physical. Constructed worlds where immersion overrides perception.
Interactions
Embodied motion, haptic feedback, spatial locomotion, simulated physics, gaze, spatial audio.
Devices
VR headsets, gloves, treadmills, room-scale setups, motion tracking, synthetic environments.
Uses
Simulation, creative exploration, therapy, co-presence, embodied storytelling.
Note
Here, the self enters constructed spaces—entirely synthetic yet deeply felt.
