Immersion may refer to:

The arts

* "Immersion", a 2012 story by

Aliette de Bodard Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. Writing de Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, and in 2009 was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best ...

* ''Immersion'', a French comic book series by

Léo Quievreux Léo Quievreux (born 1971) is a French author and illustrator of comic books, and founder of publisher Éditions Gotoproductions. His moniker as a musician is Pik. Early life and education Quievreux was born in Mulhouse in the Alsace region of F ...

* ''Immersion'' (album), the third album by Australian group Pendulum * ''Immersion'' (film), a 2021 Chilean thriller film *

Immersion (series) Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of Warne ...

, a webseries which test the concepts of video games in real life, created by Rooster Teeth Productions *

Immersion journalism Immersion journalism or immersionism is a style of journalism similar to gonzo journalism. In the style, journalists immerse themselves in a situation and with the people involved. The final product tends to focus on the experience, not the writ ...

, a style of journalism

Science and technology

Immersion lithography Immersion lithography is a photolithography resolution enhancement technique for manufacturing integrated circuits (ICs) that replaces the usual air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid medium that has a refractive inde ...

or immersion microscopy, optical techniques in which liquid is between the objective and image plane in order to raise numerical aperture *

Immersion (mathematics) In mathematics, an immersion is a differentiable function between differentiable manifolds whose differential (or pushforward) is everywhere injective. Explicitly, is an immersion if :D_pf : T_p M \to T_N\, is an injective function at every p ...

, a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding *

Immersion (virtual reality) Immersion into virtual reality (VR) is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world. The perception is created by surrounding the user of the VR system in images, sound or other stimuli that provide an engrossing total enviro ...

, the perception of being physically present in a non-physical world, created by using VR

Other uses

Immersion baptism Immersion baptism (also known as baptism by immersion or baptism by submersion) is a method of baptism that is distinguished from baptism by affusion (pouring) and by aspersion (sprinkling), sometimes without specifying whether the immersion is ...

, a type of baptism whereby the subject is immersed in water *

Immersion Corporation Immersion Corporation is an Aventura, Florida based developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, also known as haptic technology. Immersion Corporation has been accused of being a patent troll. Founded in 1993 by Louis Barry Rosenberg (sc ...

, a haptic technology developer *

Immersion heater Electric heating is a process in which electrical energy is converted directly to heat energy at around 100% efficiency, using rather cheap devices. Common applications include space heating, cooking, water heating and industrial processes. A ...

, a kind of water heater *

Immersion therapy Immersion therapy is a psychological technique which allows a patient to overcome fears ( phobias), but can be used for anxiety and panic disorders. First a fear-hierarchy is created: the patient is asked a series of questions to determine the l ...

, overcoming fears through confrontation *

Language immersion Language immersion, or simply immersion, is a technique used in bilingual language education in which two languages are used for instruction in a variety of topics, including math, science, or social studies. The languages used for instruction ...

, a method of teaching a second language in which the target language is used for instruction {{disambiguation