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digital immersive
This article surveys digital immersive works (VR, AR, interactive installations, participatory online platforms). For stage immersion, see Theatre adaptations; for LARP, see Cycle Protocol.
Digital immersive works adapt Beach Surgery through virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed-reality installations, and networked participatory platforms. Distinct from stage-based immersion (theatre, LARP), they are unified by mediation through digital substrates and their capacity to render the glitch spatially navigable.
The VR/Moondust music sim (2022–present, location variable), operated by Leif in Fellow Disjecta, Oh Sunny Danger Time, invites users into the radio igloo. Players adjust frequency to correct Leif's doubled vision; the corrective frequency is simultaneously Katita's heartbeat and the sound of the earth's spin reversing. The installation is ongoing and distributed.
The Reconstruction Chamber (immersive installation, 2021–present, seven worldwide locations) maps users into a desert and overlays Leif's rocket cart trajectory in holographic real-time, allowing simultaneous visitors to see contradictory paths. The Parallel Wires (video game, 2018) recreates Chapter 1's rooftop crossing as precision platforming, inverting the camera to simulate blindness and deploying audio cues (Katita's voice) as navigation.
The Cycle Protocol LARP (2019–present) distributes players across seven simultaneous loops, each solving a fragment of the glitch differently; the loops' contradictions are deliberate and unfoldable.
Empty World Meditations exists as both guided VR and podcast, collapsing the distinction between immersion and listening. The consensus among scholars: digital media does not resolve the glitch but allows users to inhabit multiple resolutions simultaneously—which may be the closest approach to truth.