Word describing the feeling of being there to experience something first hand

There’s a word I learned in a philosophy lecture and a YouTube video a long time ago regarding the feeling of being there to experience a thing first-hand. For example, being at the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa with your own eyes in contrast to looking at a really detailed image from a computer screen. While the latter lets you zoom in every nook and cranny of the painting, there’s a "feeling" on just being there physically in the presence of the Da Vinci painting.