The 'detection, perception and object-presence' framework: a unified structure for investigating illusory representations of reality

An illusory representation of reality is percieved to actually be the object or environment that it depicts. For example, Augmented Reality creates the illusion that a computer-generated object is a real object that exists in a person's environment. Conversely, Virtual Reality aims to 'immerse' the user and make them perceive, to some degree, to be in the virtual environment. Furthermore, the object that a representation depicts may actually be another form of representation. For example, a computer-generated image could create the illusion of being a photograph. This paper proposes a unified framework for assessing the success of illusory representations of reality; namely the 'Detection, Perception, Object-Presence framework'.