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Cinematic VR, either as an in-game cutscene or a standalone 360° 3D movie, is a widespread narration tool for stories unfolding through Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) experiences. Commonly, users experience cinematics from a 3^rd or 1^st person ...

Time perception is an essential component of a user's experience and interaction in immersive virtual environments. This paper explores the performance and subjective time perception when carrying out a cognitive task in a virtual environment while ...

Gaze is an important indicator of visual attention and knowledge of gaze location can be used to improve and augment Virtual Reality (VR) experiences. This has led to the development of VR Head Mounted Displays (HMD) with inbuilt gaze trackers. Given ...

As technology advances in computer graphics, augmented reality has become an increasingly popular tool for entertainment and learning purposes, especially in the sports sector. Examples can be found in different sports such as rugby, baseball, and ...

Interest in the applications of Extended Reality is growing across many different domains. Collaborative or shared experiences are seen as a primary use case. However, there is a surprisingly little research efforts on collaborative design tasks not ...

Shadows are important spatial cues for virtual objects in augmented reality (AR). The common assumption is that a shadow should be darker than its surroundings as it is the result of something obscuring the light source. However, darkening pixels is ...

While 360° videos watched in a VR headset are gaining in popularity, it is necessary to lower the required bandwidth to stream these immersive videos and obtain a satisfying quality of experience. Doing so requires predicting the user's head motion in ...

Smart gloves are wearable interfaces which provide detection of movements and gestures, kinesthetic, and even tactile feedback. These capabilities are important for immersive applications as it can bring more realistic features. The presented paper ...

This study is a between-groups preliminary evaluation of how Non-Verbal Cues (NVCs) impact participant attention and degree of social presence with an NPC. Participants are divided in two groups and witness an agent's monologue who features high-...