We review the concept of presence in virtual reality, normally thought of as the sense of
“being there” in the virtual world. We argued in a 2009 paper that presence consists of two …

Virtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo
head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] …

As virtual reality (VR) technology and systems become more commercially available and
accessible, more and more psychologists are starting to integrate VR as part of their …

This article reports the impact of the degree of personalization and individualization of users'
avatars as well as the impact of the degree of immersion on typical psychophysical factors in …

Inside virtual reality, users can embody avatars that are collocated from a first-person
perspective. When doing so, participants have the feeling that the own body has been …

Introduction: Over recent decades many researchers and clinicians have started to use
Virtual Reality (VR) as a new technology for implementing innovative rehabilitation …

This paper investigates the effect of avatar realism on embodiment and social interactions in
Virtual Reality (VR). We compared abstract avatar representations based on a wooden …

User embodiment is important for many virtual reality (VR) applications, for example, in the
context of social interaction, therapy, training, or entertainment. However, there is no data …

Usually, we do not question that we possess a body and act upon the world. This pre-
reflective awareness of being a bodily and agentive self can, however, be disrupted by …

The brain's body representation is amenable to rapid change, even though we tend to think
of our bodies as relatively fixed and stable. For example, it has been shown that a life-sized …