This paper reviews the current state of the art for Virtual Reality (VR) and Virtual
Environment (VE) applications in the field of the built environment. The review begins with a …

Metaverses are immersive three-dimensional virtual worlds in which people interact as
avatars with each other and with software agents, using the metaphor of the real world but …

In today's digital era, the realms of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed
reality (MR) collectively referred to as extended reality (XR) are resha** human–computer …

In this article, we provide the nontechnical reader with a fundamental understanding of the
components of virtual reality (VR) and a thorough discussion of the role VR has played in …

Behaviour in virtual environments might be informed by our experiences in physical
environments, but virtual environments are not constrained by the same physical …

In the emerging ecology of commercial social VR, avatars that serve to represent individuals
within these multi-user virtual worlds are at the heart of the embodied social experience …

This study investigates how learners collaboratively construct embodied geometry
knowledge in shared VR environments. Three groups of in-service teachers collaboratively …

This chapter will consider some of the main ethical issues that researchers are likely to
encounter in Internet-related research. These issues have been discussed now for some …

Metaverses are immersive three-dimensional virtual worlds (VWs) where people interact
with each other and their environment, using the metaphor of the real world but without its …

There is a huge variety of tools for synchronous collaboration including instant messaging,
audio conferencing, videoconferencing and other shared spaces. One type of tool …