Enhancing our lives with immersive virtual reality

M Slater, MV Sanchez-Vives - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016 - frontiersin.org
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] …

How to build an embodiment lab: achieving body representation illusions in virtual reality

B Spanlang, JM Normand, D Borland… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Advances in computer graphics algorithms and virtual reality (VR) systems, together with the
reduction in cost of associated equipment, have led scientists to consider VR as a useful tool …

Comparing different storytelling approaches for virtual guides in digital immersive museums

M Carrozzino, M Colombo, F Tecchia… - … Reality, Virtual Reality …, 2018 - Springer
Virtual museums are becoming increasingly popular, especially thanks to the recent spread
of low-cost immersive technologies enabling even small cultural realities to enrich their …

Using virtual reality to support acting in motion capture with differently scaled characters

RK Kammerlander, A Pereira… - 2021 IEEE Virtual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion capture is a well-established technology for capturing actors' movements and
performances within the entertainment industry. Many actors, however, witness the poor …

Joint action in a virtual environment: Crossing roads with risky vs. safe human and agent partners

Y Jiang, EE O'Neal, P Rahimian, JP Yon… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper examines how people jointly coordinate their decisions and actions with risky vs.
safe human and agent road-crossing partners (Fig. 1). The task for participants was to …

Beaming into the news: a system for and case study of tele-immersive journalism

S Kishore, X Navarro, E Dominguez… - IEEE computer …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show how a combination of virtual reality and robotics can be used to beam a physical
representation of a person to a distant location, and describe an application of this system in …

Acting together: Joint pedestrian road crossing in an immersive virtual environment

Y Jiang, EE O'neal, JP Yon, L Franzen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We investigated how two people jointly coordinate their decisions and actions in a co-
occupied, large-screen virtual environment. The task for participants was to physically cross …

An Exploration of Theatre Rehearsals in Social Virtual Reality

A Levordashka, J Eastman, EA Skoulikari… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Virtual Reality (VR) offers potential for theatre makers to rehearse remotely in settings which
are uniquely immersive. In collaboration with a major drama school in the United Kingdom, a …

Action coordination with agents: Crossing roads with a computer-generated character in a virtual environment

Y Jiang, E O'Neal, P Rahimian, JP Yon… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We investigated how people jointly coordinate their decisions and actions with a computer-
generated character (agent) in a large-screen virtual environment. The task for participants …

Virtual reality rehearsals for acting with visual effects

R Bouville, V Gouranton, B Arnaldi - International Conference on …, 2016 - inria.hal.science
This paper presents the use of Virtual Reality (VR) for movie actors rehearsal of VFX-
enhanced scenes. The impediment behind VFX scenes is that actors must be filmed in front …