From physical to virtual art exhibitions and beyond: Survey and some issues for consideration for the metaverse

S Sylaiou, P Dafiotis, D Koukopoulos… - Journal of Cultural …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This manuscript addresses the increasing importance of Extended Reality (XR) in art
exhibitions. It elaborates on the technologies employed, design issues, pertinent aims, and …

From 2d to 3D video conferencing: Modular RGB-D capture and reconstruction for interactive natural user representations in immersive extended reality (XR) …

SNB Gunkel, S Dijkstra-Soudarissanane… - Frontiers in Signal …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
With recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) hardware,
many new immersive Extended Reality (XR) applications and services arose. One challenge …

Designing and evaluating a vr lobby for a socially enriching remote opera watching experience

S Lee, I Viola, S Rossi, Z Guo, I Reimat… - … on Visualization and …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The latest social VR technologies have enabled users to attend traditional media and arts
performances together while being geographically removed, making such experiences …

A Platform for Collecting User Behaviour Data during Social VR Experiments Using Mozilla Hubs

T Röggla, DA Shamma, JR Williamson, I Viola… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
In recent years, a large variety of online communication tools have emerged, including
social Virtual Reality (VR) platforms for interacting in a virtual world with participants being …

Open-Sourcing VR2Gather: A Collaborative Social VR System for Adaptive Multi-Party Real Time Communication

J Jansen, T Röggla, S Rossi, I Viola… - Proceedings of the 32nd …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Social Virtual Reality is envisioned to transform how individuals communicate remotely,
offering a sense of immersion and co-presence within a virtual space. Current platforms …

Characterizing the Geometric Complexity of G-PCC Compressed Point Clouds

A Gallina, H Amirpour, S Baldoni… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Measuring the complexity of visual content is crucial in various applications, such as
selecting sources to test processing algorithms, designing subjective studies, and efficiently …

Exploring engagement dynamics between journalists and news consumers in Social XR

A Verhofstadt, I Jennes, W Van den Broeck… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
In a fast-evolving news media landscape, journalists are exploring the potential of Extended
Reality (XR) technologies to connect with their news consumers and to attract new …

From 2D Video Conferencing to Photorealistic Immersive 3D Communication

SNB Gunkel - 2024‏ - research.vu.nl
Video conferencing has become a commonly used tool for both private and professional
remote communication. Despised yet immensely popular, current video conferencing and …

Understanding and Assessing Quality of Experience in Immersive Communications

M Orduna Cortillas - 2023‏ - oa.upm.es
The starting point to validate the prototype and the conclusions obtained from the proposed
methodologies is a tele-education scenario. Before COVID-19, this technology was already …

Creating an Improved and Immersive Visitor Experience for Museums: Complementing Extended Reality Exhibits with Custom Exhibit Creation

TJF Nunes - 2023‏ - search.proquest.com
Visiting museums or other spaces of cultural interest may prove to be prohibitive due to
numerous factors, such as health problems, distance, mobility issues or schedule …