Erin Reilly, Professor fo Practice and Founding Director of the Texas Immersive Institute in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas, talks with Austin Forum director Jay Boisseau about immersive experiences and the technologies that enable them. They discuss the history and present of immersive technologies, the broad potential applications uses, and why immersive experiences map so well to humans, how we experience the world and how we understand it.