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The advantage offered by VR over traditional technology is a greater sense of presence and immersion, which magnifies user effects and enhances the effectiveness of exposure-based interventions. The current study systematically examined the basic factors involved in generating presence in VR as compared to standard technology, namely (1) system-driven factors that are exclusive to VR devices while controlling general factors such as field of view and image quality; (2) media-driven factors of the virtual environment eliciting motivational salience through different levels of arousal and valence (relaxing, exciting and fear evoking stimuli); and (3) the effects of presence on magnifying affective response. Participants (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200914) watched 3 different emotionally salient videos (1\u2009\u00d7\u2009fear evoking, 1\u2009\u00d7\u2009relaxing and 1\u2009\u00d7\u2009exciting) in both viewing modes (VR and Projector). 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