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Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used as a social platform for users to interact and build connections with one another in an immersive virtual environment. Reflecting on the empirical progress in this area of study, a comprehensive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Xiaoying Wei , Xiaofu Jin , Ge Lin Kan , Yukang Yan , Mingming Fan

Virtual Reality (VR) has an increasing impact on the market in many fields, from education and medicine to engineering and entertainment, by creating different applications that replicate or in the case of augmentation enhance real-life…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Tanja Kojić , Danish Ali , Robert Greinacher , Sebastian Möller , Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

The advent of personalized reality has arrived. Rapid development in AR/MR/VR enables users to augment or diminish their perception of the physical world. Robust tooling for digital interface modification enables users to change how their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Siddhartha Datta

Over the last decade, the term spatial computing has grown to have two different, though not entirely unrelated, definitions. The first definition of spatial computing stems from industry, where it refers primarily to new kinds of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Benjamin Adams

The world is slowly moving towards everything being simulated digitally and virtually. Mixed Reality (MR) is the amalgam of the real world with virtual stimuli. It has great prospects in the future in terms of various applications…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Dipesh Gyawali

Gestures are central to human communication, enriching interactions through non-verbal expression. Virtual avatars increasingly use AI-generated gestures to enhance life-likeness, yet evaluations have largely been confined to 2D. Virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Axel Wiebe Werner , Jonas Beskow , Anna Deichler

As virtual reality (VR) technology becomes more pervasive, it continues to find multiple new uses beyond research laboratories. One of them is distance adult education -- the potential of VR to provide valuable education experiences is…

This paper explores the economics of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies within decision-making contexts. Two metrics are proposed: Context Entropy, the informational complexity of an environment, and Context…

General Economics · Economics 2023-05-29 Joshua Gans , Abhishek Nagaraj

Immersive technologies are capable of transporting people to distant or inaccessible environments that they might not otherwise visit. Practitioners and researchers alike are discovering new ways to replicate and enhance existing tourism…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Lillian Maria Eagan , Jacob Young , Jesse Bering , Tobias Langlotz

Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used as a platform for social interaction, including as a means for older adults to maintain engagement. However, there has been limited research to examine the features of social VR that are most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Tong Bill Xu , Armin Mostafavi , Benjamin Kim , Angella Lee , Walter Boot , Sara Czaja , Saleh Kalantari

We present a study of student learning through the use of virtual reality. A software package is used to introduce concepts of special relativity to students in a game-like environment where users experience the effects of travelling at…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-05-14 D. McGrath , M. Wegener , T. J. McIntyre , C. M. Savage , M. Williamson

Robotics simulation has been an integral part of research and development in the robotics area. The simulation eliminates the possibility of harm to sensors, motors, and the physical structure of a real robot by enabling robotics…

The research area "Virtual Manufacturing (VM)'' is the use of information technology and computer simulation to model real world manufacturing processes for the purpose of analysing and understanding them. As automation technologies such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-07-20 Damien Chablat , Philippe Dépincé , Eric Noël , Peer-Oliver Woelk

Virtualization is a term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. The purpose of virtual computing environment is to improve resource utilization by providing a unified integrated operating platform for users and applications…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Radhwan Y Ameen , Asmaa Y. Hamo

The virtual learning in University Education is the learning which is presented by set of integrated information and pedagogical technologies, in a process of interaction between subjects and objects as the virtual educational resources.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Kerimbayev Nurassyl

We take our world to be an objective reality, but is it? The assumption that the physical world exists in and of itself has struggled to assimilate the findings of modern physics for some time now. For example, an objective space and time…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Brian Whitworth

This paper makes the case that a powerful new discipline, which we term perception engineering, is steadily emerging. It follows from a progression of ideas that involve creating illusions, from historical paintings and film, to video games…

Virtual Reality (VR) has recently gained traction with many new and ever more affordable devices being released. The increase in popularity of this paradigm of interaction has given birth to new applications and has attracted casual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos , João Madeiras Pereira

We can create Virtual Reality (VR) interactions that have no equivalent in the real world by remapping spacetime or altering users' body representation, such as stretching the user's virtual arm for manipulation of distant objects or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Parastoo Abtahi , Sidney Q. Hough , James A. Landay , Sean Follmer

This paper investigates the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) as a research tool for studying diversity and inclusion characteristics in the context of human-robot interactions (HRI). Some exclusive advantages of using VR in HRI are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 André Helgert , Sabrina C. Eimler , Carolin Straßmann