Research investigating immersion has found that gamers can become immersed in a game and ignore outside distractions while playing. The researchers found that the better someone was doing at a game, the more immersed they were; interestingly even if the game was rigged to show a player achieving either a high or low score, the immersion level was the same as those whose achieved the same score through their own skill.
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Gamers Experience Inattentional Blindness, Not Ignoring Others
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(Score: 5, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 19 2014, @11:23PM
Speak for yourselves. I'm intentionally ignoring people, thank you very much.
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(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday June 19 2014, @11:45PM
Yeah, same. The whole point of video games is an escape. Of course you're going to be ignoring things. That's what they're for.
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(Score: 2) by Geotti on Thursday June 19 2014, @11:58PM
I heard there's some great new noise-cancelling headphones [head-fi.org] out to go along with your sight blocker [flickr.com].
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 19 2014, @11:48PM
This occurs far far far too often when driving.
A moment's inattention often results in grave ( literally ) consequences.
That is the reason I do not like this new trend of entertainment centers in automobiles.
(Score: 3) by kaszz on Friday June 20 2014, @01:15AM
Seems kind of darwinistic.. The only downside is that there's a lot of collateral.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Reziac on Friday June 20 2014, @02:31AM
While I agree with you about entertainment centers in cars (tho at least some state laws require that they be out of the driver's sight) ... playing DOOM made me a better driver, as I became more aware of what might be off to the side or just out of sight.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 20 2014, @05:27PM
playing DOOM made me a better driver, as I became more aware of what might be off to the side or just out of sight.
I agree. I'm driving and playing DOOM on my phone rign1@!!! NO CARRIER
(Score: 3, Interesting) by me on Friday June 20 2014, @04:00AM
Anytime someone puts all their attention onto the task at hand, whether a game or not, it's possible they will fail to observe things going on around them.
I can do this while reading - people can come into the room and talk to me, and I'll be completely oblivious to their presence until they get right in front of me or shout.
I suspect it's even easier with games, because of the audio component.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Zinho on Friday June 20 2014, @02:59PM
Books do this for me, too. In my experience, when I'm deeply into a book it's literally like my brain has stopped listening to my ears.
One time in grade school I was reading at recess and noticed that I wasn't hearing other students around. Afraid that I may have missed the call to return to class I looked around, and I noticed that the playground was still full of other children loudly playing. It took a few seconds for my brain to register that I expected to actually hear them, though; I was seeing them but not hearing them, which I found quite confusing. it was eerie not hearing anything when I knew that I really should have. Once I was paying attention to the scene instead of my book the sounds came back, and I could hear everyone again.
Another incident that I don't remember as well is that I once missed class change because I became fascinated with a hands-on magnetism demonstration set up in the back of the classroom. I didn't notice everyone else leaving and the teacher didn't notice I was missing until halfway through then next hour. Not as dramatic a story, but it's another example of how it really doesn't have to be video games to get the effect.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by redneckmother on Friday June 20 2014, @05:17AM
Years ago, a (now ex) wife of mine would get EXTREMELY pissed off when I read a book - because I would become impervious to (almost all) distractions, be they noise, lighting changes, smells, whatever. I can't count the times I picked up a book, and read it completely through, only to find that hours had elapsed, and I was in the shit (again).
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by wonkey_monkey on Friday June 20 2014, @10:00AM
So, which is it? I assume the disparity is due to the conflation of conscious ignoring and unconscious filtering-out.
Also: duh.
My brother does this when he's watching TV. Words spoken in a normal conversational tone just fail to register with his brain.
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