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If these effects are conceded, it follows that literal materiality can have powerful influence on the shaping of immersive 3-D space and the structures within it. What I take to be happening is that the pre-existing, enculturated phenomenology of textuality, when disposed in this illusory space, struggles to maintain its real-world phenomenology, with and against the graphic world’s programmed structures. A relationship of mutual interference and influence develops in which the phenomenology of text shapes the reader’s experience of space while, at the same time, of course, spatiality works to alter our phenomenological experience of text in its new, artificial environment.