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🕶️ Community Analysis of Social Virtual Reality Based on Large-Scale Log Data of a Commercial Metaverse Platform
#vr

Community Analysis of Social Virtual Reality Based on Large-Scale Log Data of a Commercial Metaverse Platform
This study quantitatively analyzes the structural characteristics of user communities within Social Virtual Reality (Social VR) platforms supporting head-mounted displays (HMDs), based on large-scale log data. By detecting and evaluating community structures from data on substantial interactions (defined as prolonged co-presence in the same virtual space), we found that Social VR platforms tend to host numerous, relatively small communities characterized by strong internal cohesion and limited …

Q&A with Bill Ready, who became Pinterest's CEO in 2022, about changes during his tenure, winning over Gen Z, Pinterest's business model, AI content, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/business/pinterest-s…

How Pinterest Is Courting Gen Z With ‘Safer’ Social Media
Bill Ready, the company’s chief executive, is shifting the virtual pinboard platform toward shopping and things that “make you feel better.”

The Bicentennial of the American Unitarian Association and Congregational History
https://ift.tt/z7hq1nC
Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
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Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

from my link log —
What they don't tell you about demand paging in school.
https://offlinemark.com/2020/10/14/demand-paging/
saved 2020-10-17 ht…

What they don't tell you about demand paging in school - offlinemark
This post details my adventures with the Linux virtual memory subsystem, and my discovery of a creative way to taunt the OOM (out of memory) killer by accumulating memory in the kernel, rather than in userspace. Keep reading and you’ll learn: Internal details of the Linux kernel’s demand paging implementation How to exploit virtual memory […]

Atlas Obscura plans to launch Obscura Society, a WebXR-based lounge offering users 3D avatars for voice chats, portals to other VR apps, and more, in early 2026 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/847182/atlas-obscura-society-3d-virtual-…

How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web
The Obscura Society will be a virtual lounge that Atlas Obscura community members can visit to hang out with the help of 3D avatars, have voice chats, and explore places from the site’s massive catalog together.

Maintaining accurate timing in virtual machines has always been a challenge. Especially on hosts with many VMs.
Here's a clever solution, hopefully coming soon to a hypervisor or OS near you.
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/vmclock/

One does not simply use rootless … me with a rootless Podman walks into Mordor of CI and docker build anyway.
Just kidding! Rootless Podman containers, quadlets and systemd are truly amazing in 2025.
https://vyskocil.me/blog/ci-setup-which-never-worked/

Ci Setup Which Never Worked
In an earlier post about giving up Kubernetes, I wrote that my server is a plain old virtual machine pet. While this works pretty well for a static web server use case, I wanted to explore ways how to automate this blog. This is a story about how I failed. I am writing this because I did my best to make it work, but it turned out its impossible At the same time it has a some good hints about user systemd, quadlets, rootless podman and what I managed to get working.

Oh darn. I forgot my $8000 at home. 😂
(Got in the virtual door at 7:45 and there were no more regular tickets left for sale… just the legalized scalping site.)
#bluejays #ticketmaster

Sign up for the Convention Zero games and events are open ... And so it's the sign up for my 'lil seminar about keeping backups for creative folks:
https://warhorn.net/events/conzero-fall-2025
It will be held this Saturday at 8 am EST, 1 pm GMT, 2 pm CET.

Apple Vision Pro M5 review: everything looks sharper, especially virtual desktop mode, and the Dual Knit band is comfortable, but the headset still costs $3,500 (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtua

Apple Vision Pro M5 review: faster, clearer, and finally comfortable
New Apple silicon and a new headband level up the experience

Now, 10,000 EV drivers in Finland are contributing to grid stability. The smart charging service Synergi, which already optimises EV charging according to dynamic power prices, now provides FCR support to the national grid using this aggregated fleet.
https://tech.eu/2025/11/12/finlands-fi

Finland’s first EV virtual power plant goes live
After years of R&D, energy startup Synergi today launched Finland’s first EV virtual power plant. Synergi is the first company in Finland to aggregate thousands of electric vehicles via its consumer app, effectively creating a virtual power plant that supports grid balancing when needed. For consumers, this means the ability to earn rewards with home EV charging. Synergi‘s free mobile app is already trusted by over 10,000 households. Check out our earlier interview with Antti Hämmäinen,�…

"In 19 transactions starting last October, Ms. Handeland deposited $98,300 into the machines. All of it vanished — as did Mike, who turned out to be a fiction."
How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technol

How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims
The kiosks, which resemble conventional A.T.M.s and convert cash into virtual currencies, are increasingly under scrutiny as a tool for scammers.

Label-frugal satellite image change detection with generative virtual exemplar learning
Hichem Sahbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06926 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Label-frugal satellite image change detection with generative virtual exemplar learning
Change detection is a major task in remote sensing which consists in finding all the occurrences of changes in multi-temporal satellite or aerial images. The success of existing methods, and particularly deep learning ones, is tributary to the availability of hand-labeled training data that capture the acquisition conditions and the subjectivity of the user (oracle). In this paper, we devise a novel change detection algorithm, based on active learning. The main contribution of our work resides …

Meta rolls out link sharing to let users invite up to eight people into their Hyperscape virtual rooms via a Quest 3 or 3S headset, or the Horizon mobile app (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/825705/meta-hyperscape-social-links-capt…

Meta’s Hyperscape is ready to turn your real living room into a VR hangout
Meta is rolling out the ability to visit virtual worlds captured with its photorealistic Hyperscape tech with groups of people instead of solo.

🥓 Pain tolerance found to increase during social interaction in VR
#pain

Pain tolerance found to increase during social interaction in VR
For years, virtual reality (VR) has been used in pain management for hospitalized adults and children, to take their minds off their discomfort, but typically the technology has been a solo experience for the patient.

Back to the Future Museum -- Speculative Design for Virtual Citizen-Curated Museums
Richard Rhodes, Sandra Woolley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06472 https://

Back to the Future Museum -- Speculative Design for Virtual Citizen-Curated Museums
This forward-looking paper uses speculative design fiction to explore future museum scenarios where citizen curators design and share immersive virtual reality museums populated with tangible heritage artefacts, intangible virtual elements and interactive experiences. The work also explores takeaway 'asset packs' containing 3D artefact models, curation assets, and interactive experiences, and we envisage a visit to the future museum, where the physical and virtual experiences interplay. Finally…

Fully mixed virtual element schemes for steady-state poroelastic stress-assisted diffusion
Isaac Bermudez, Bryan Gomez-Vargas, Andres E. Rubiano, Ricardo Ruiz-Baier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12307

Fully mixed virtual element schemes for steady-state poroelastic stress-assisted diffusion
We propose a fully mixed virtual element method for the numerical approximation of the coupling between stress-altered diffusion and linear elasticity equations with strong symmetry of total poroelastic stress (using the Hellinger--Reissner principle). A novelty of this work is that we introduce a less restrictive assumption on the stress-assisted diffusion coefficient, requiring an analysis of the perturbed diffusion equation using Banach spaces. The solvability of the continuous and discrete …

Tomorrow (Tues, 11 Nov 2025) from 20:00 NZDT we're having a #Libre / #FOSS catch up at https://meeting.iridescent.nz…

Control Requirements for Robust Beamforming in Multi-Satellite Systems
Diego Tuzi, Thomas Delamotte, Andreas Knopp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11465 https://

Control Requirements for Robust Beamforming in Multi-Satellite Systems
This work investigates the impact of position and attitude perturbations on the beamforming performance of multi-satellite systems. The system under analysis is a formation of small satellites equipped with direct radiating arrays that synthesise a large virtual antenna aperture. The results show that performance is highly sensitive to the considered perturbations. However, by incorporating position and attitude information into the beamforming process, nominal performance can be effectively re…

If you're thinking of applying and want to visit the Quad, or if you're an alum and you have not been back for a while, we think you'll enjoy our new virtual tour! https://tour.concept3d.com/share/SIWhkklH_Y/stop/1

Geography of Chinese Workers Building
the Transcontinental Railroad
https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/virtual/

On character tables for fusion systems
Thomas Lawrence, Jason Semeraro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09277 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09277

On character tables for fusion systems
A character table $X$ for a saturated fusion system $\mathcal{F}$ on a finite $p$-group $S$ is the square matrix of values associated to a basis of virtual $\mathcal{F}$-stable ordinary characters of $S$. We investigate a conjecture of the second author which equates the $p$-part of $|\det(X)|^2$ with the product of the orders of $S$-centralisers of fully $\mathcal{F}$-centralised $\mathcal{F}$-class representatives. This statement is exactly column orthogonality for the character tab…

A virtual five element basis for the uncountable linear orders
John Krueger, Justin Tatch Moore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03581 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

A virtual five element basis for the uncountable linear orders
We prove that for every Aronzsajn line A and every Countryman line C, there is a proper forcing extension in which A contains an isomorphic copy of either C or its converse C*. As a corollary, we obtain answers to several related questions asked by the second author in the literature: if there is an inaccessible cardinal, then there is a proper forcing extension in which the uncountable linear orders have a five element basis; BPFA implies the existence of a five element basis for the uncountab…

Netflix is merging Scanline, the VFX company it acquired in 2021, with Eyeline, its virtual production and R&D unit, to form a one-stop shop for digital tools (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-scanline-vfx-eyeline-studios-m…

Inside Netflix's Bid to Supercharge Faster, Cheaper VFX Through Virtual Production and AI | Exclusive
Eyeline CEO Jeff Shapiro and Studio head Kevin Baillie pull back the curtain on the division's work, research and tools, from volumetric capture to generative AI

Classicized dynamics and initial conditions in field theories with fakeons
Damiano Anselmi, Gianluca Calcagni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05276 https://arxi…

Classicized dynamics and initial conditions in field theories with fakeons
Theories with purely virtual particles (fakeons) do not possess a classical action in the strict sense, but rather a "classicized" one, obtained by integrating out the fake particles at tree level. Although this procedure generates nonlocal interactions, we show that the resulting classicized equations of motion are not burdened with the need to specify infinitely many initial conditions. The reason is the inherent link between the fakeonic system and the parent higher-derivative local system: …

Running on the battle-tested #Erlang virtual machine that powers planet-scale systems such as WhatsApp and Ericsson, #Gleam is ready for workloads of any size.
https://gleam…

Be part of the conversation about how to #DefendResearch, support #OpenAccess, and protect #Education! Register for next week's SJSU OA Virtual Conference, where I'm very excited …

LiteVPNet: A Lightweight Network for Video Encoding Control in Quality-Critical Applications
Vibhoothi Vibhoothi, Fran\c{c}ois Piti\'e, Anil Kokaram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12379

LiteVPNet: A Lightweight Network for Video Encoding Control in Quality-Critical Applications
In the last decade, video workflows in the cinema production ecosystem have presented new use cases for video streaming technology. These new workflows, e.g. in On-set Virtual Production, present the challenge of requiring precise quality control and energy efficiency. Existing approaches to transcoding often fall short of these requirements, either due to a lack of quality control or computational overhead. To fill this gap, we present a lightweight neural network (LiteVPNet) for accurately pr…

3D model of the Antikythera Device. Fabulous!
https://www.thomasweibel.ch/anticythera2/

On the threshold behaviour of heavy top production
Torbj\"orn Sj\"ostrand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04590 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04590

On the threshold behaviour of heavy top production
The observation of an excess of ttbar production in the threshold region, by CMS and ATLAS, has been interpreted as a toponium contribution, i.e. from below-threshold ttbar virtual states. The news here is the nontrivial experimental extraction of such a signal, not its existence as such. Indeed, already 35+ years ago an NRQCD Green's function approach was used to model the above- and below-threshold production of ttbar pairs in pp/ppbar collisions. The relevant cross section equations from tha…

Uh, dockerhub is down. Their status page #docker

The Euler characteristic of $\ell$-adic local systems on $\mathcal{A}_n$
Olivier Ta\"ibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00656 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

The Euler characteristic of $\ell$-adic local systems on $\mathcal{A}_n$
We study the Euler characteristic of $\ell$-adic local systems on the moduli stack $\mathcal{a}_n$ of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension $n$ associated to algebraic representations of $\mathbf{GSp}_{2n}$, as virtual representations of the absolute Galois group of $\mathbb{Q}$ and the unramified Hecke algebra of $\mathbf{GSp}_{2n}$. To this end we take the last steps of the Ihara-Langlands-Kottwitz method to compute the intersection cohomology of minimal compactifications of Si…

WORKSHOP
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https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/842992/

WORKSHOP | Yes, you can(vass)! · Mobilize
**One voter and one conversation at a time ... that's how Democrats win!** Studies have shown that turnout increases by up to 9 percentage points through door-to-door canvassing! Are you thinking about canvassing, but don't feel quite ready? If you've never canvassed before (and even if you're a fellow introvert), or just need a refresher, join the Bay Area Coalition Tuesdays, 7 pm (PST) and other dates to talk about what your canvassing day will look like, including .......... - How to h…

Virtual fibring of manifolds and groups
Dawid Kielak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01805 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01805

Virtual fibring of manifolds and groups
The topic of this survey is the phenomenon of fibring over the circle for manifolds, and its group-theoretic twin, algebraic fibring. We will discuss the state of the art, and explain briefly some of the ideas behind the more recent developments, focusing on RFRS groups and manifolds with such fundamental groups. Then we will move on to a more speculative part, where many conjectures about fibring in higher dimensions will be given. The conjectures vary in their level of plausibility, but even …

Sketch Animation: State-of-the-art Report
Gaurav Rai, Ojaswa Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10218 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10218

Sketch Animation: State-of-the-art Report
Sketch animation has emerged as a transformative technology, bridging art and science to create dynamic visual narratives across various fields such as entertainment, education, healthcare, and virtual reality. This survey explores recent trends and innovations in sketch animation, with a focus on methods that have advanced the state of the art. The paper categorizes and evaluates key methodologies, including keyframe interpolation, physics-based animation, data-driven, motion capture, and deep…

Detection of Performance Changes in MooBench Results Using Nyrki\"o on GitHub Actions
Shinhyung Yang, David Georg Reichelt, Henrik Ingo, Wilhelm Hasselbring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11310

Detection of Performance Changes in MooBench Results Using Nyrkiö on GitHub Actions
In GitHub with its 518 million hosted projects, performance changes within these projects are highly relevant to the project's users. Although performance measurement is supported by GitHub CI/CD, performance change detection is a challenging topic. In this paper, we demonstrate how we incorporated Nyrkiö to MooBench. Prior to this work, Moobench continuously ran on GitHub virtual machines, measuring overhead of tracing agents, but without change detection. By adding the upload of the measur…

Proof of Cloud: Data Center Execution Assurance for Confidential VMs
Filip Rezabek, Moe Mahhouk, Andrew Miller, Stefan Genchev, Quintus Kilbourn, Georg Carle, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12469

Proof of Cloud: Data Center Execution Assurance for Confidential VMs
Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) protect data in use by running workloads inside hardware-isolated environments. In doing so, they also inherit the limitations of the underlying hardware. Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), which enforce this isolation, explicitly exclude adversaries with physical access from their threat model. Commercial TEEs, e.g., Intel TDX, thus assume infrastructure providers do not physically exploit hardware and serve as safeguards instead. This creates a tension…

Winding quotients for virtual period maps of rank 1
Kyoji Saito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04558 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04558

Winding quotients for virtual period maps of rank 1
We illustrate a rank 1 model of virtual period maps and their associated winding quotient, where the winding quotient is a new phenomenon appeared in a recent study of virtual period maps and it requires a reformulation of the classical inversion problem for the period maps. We answer to the new inversion problem by introducing the q-multiplicatively periodic function, whose pull-back to the winding covering space is the Weierstrass p-function up to a correction by Eisenstein series E2, and whi…

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’”

Johnson urges UN panel to hold President Trump accountable for what he calls 'human rights abuses'
In a virtual appearance before a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Switzerland, Mayor Brandon Johnson invited UN experts to come to Chicago to witness firsthand the “abuses” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during raids that have wreaked havoc in neighborhoods across the…

Enhancing Robust Multi-Market Participation of Renewable-Based VPPs through Flexible Resources
Hadi Nemati, \'Alvaro Ortega, Pedro S\'anchez-Mart\'in, Lukas Sigrist, Luis Rouco, Ignacio Egido
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12589

Enhancing Robust Multi-Market Participation of Renewable-Based VPPs through Flexible Resources
In the transition toward a sustainable power system, renewable-based Virtual Power Plants (RVPPs) have emerged as a promising solution to the challenges of integrating renewable energy sources into electricity markets. Their viability, however, depends on effective market participation strategies and the ability to manage uncertainties while leveraging flexible resources. This paper analyzes the impact of different flexible resources - such as concentrated solar power plants, hydro plants, biom…

Gini-based Model Monitoring: A General Framework with an Application to Non-life Insurance Pricing
Alexej Brauer, Paul Menzel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04556 https://

Gini-based Model Monitoring: A General Framework with an Application to Non-life Insurance Pricing
In a dynamic landscape where portfolios and environments evolve, maintaining the accuracy of pricing models is critical. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to systematically examine concept drift in non-life insurance pricing. We (i) provide an overview of the relevant literature and commonly used methodologies, clarify the distinction between virtual drift and concept drift, and explain their implications for long-run model performance; (ii) review and formalize common perfo…

Scaling Law in LLM Simulated Personality: More Detailed and Realistic Persona Profile Is All You Need
Yuqi Bai, Tianyu Huang, Kun Sun, Yuting Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11734

Scaling Law in LLM Simulated Personality: More Detailed and Realistic Persona Profile Is All You Need
This research focuses on using large language models (LLMs) to simulate social experiments, exploring their ability to emulate human personality in virtual persona role-playing. The research develops an end-to-end evaluation framework, including individual-level analysis of stability and identifiability, as well as population-level analysis called progressive personality curves to examine the veracity and consistency of LLMs in simulating human personality. Methodologically, this research propo…

Block-Encoding Tensor Networks and QUBO Embeddings
Sebastian Issel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00935 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00935

Block-Encoding Tensor Networks and QUBO Embeddings
We give an algorithm that converts any tensor network (TN) into a sequence of local unitaries whose composition block-encodes the network contraction, suitable for Quantum Eigenvalue / Singularvalue Transformation (QET/QSVT). The construction embeds each TN as a local isometry and dilates it to a unitary. Performing this step for every site of the tensor, allows the full network to be block-encoded. The theory is agnostic to virtual-bond sizes; for qubit resource counts and examples we assume g…

(screenshot) Streaming The vOICe for Windows exercise mode (voice.exe -F11F12 -nocapture) to Meta Quest 2 using Virtual Desktop Streamer, while comfortably lying down; YouTube exercise video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVugtxWmW4E
Can you visualize an image with a filled white square a…

VM-UNSSOR: Unsupervised Neural Speech Separation Enhanced by Higher-SNR Virtual Microphone Arrays
Shulin He, Zhong-Qiu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08914 https://

VM-UNSSOR: Unsupervised Neural Speech Separation Enhanced by Higher-SNR Virtual Microphone Arrays
Blind speech separation (BSS) aims to recover multiple speech sources from multi-channel, multi-speaker mixtures under unknown array geometry and room impulse responses. In unsupervised setup where clean target speech is not available for model training, UNSSOR proposes a mixture consistency (MC) loss for training deep neural networks (DNN) on over-determined training mixtures to realize unsupervised speech separation. However, when the number of microphones of the training mixtures decreases, …

MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars
Felix Taubner, Ruihang Zhang, Mathieu Tuli, Sherwin Bahmani, David B. Lindell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12785

MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars
Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating photorealistic human avatars is expensive and time-consuming, requiring large camera capture rigs and significant manual effort from professional 3D artists. With the advent of capable image and video generation models, recent methods enable automatic rendering o…

Accretion Disk Luminosity and Topological Characteristics for a Schwarzschild Black Hole Surrounded by King Dark Matter Halo
Soroush Zare, Farokhnaz Hosseinifar, Luis Miguel Nieto, Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi, Kuantay Boshkayev, Ainur Urazalina, Hassan Hassanabadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03925

Accretion Disk Luminosity and Topological Characteristics for a Schwarzschild Black Hole Surrounded by King Dark Matter Halo
This study delves into the intricate properties of a Schwarzschild black hole enveloped by King dark matter in an isotropic configuration. The thermodynamic characteristics of this black hole are meticulously analyzed, and the dynamics of massive and massless particles in its vicinity are investigated. In examining the trajectories of massless particles, the shadow cast in the presence of King dark matter is explored, revealing virtual ranges for the corresponding parameters. For the dynamics o…

Whoops. My »USB Sticks Are Not a Back-Up« seminar at ​Convention Zero got the 8am EST slot on Nov 22nd. I've held similar sessions during HistoCamp and LitCampHD, and the topic has never been a crowd favourite. I guess I'll see how many people will be awake enough at that hour. 😬
Relevant Links:
https://conventionzero.carrd.co/

USC Levan Book Chat—Maya Maskarinec, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
https://ift.tt/mAlE195
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD: "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in…
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Impact of HRTF individualisation and head movements in a real/virtual localisation task
Vincent Martin, Lorenzo Picinali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09161 https://

Impact of HRTF individualisation and head movements in a real/virtual localisation task
The objective of Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) applications are to seamlessly integrate virtual sound sources within a real environment. It is critical for these applications that virtual sources are localised precisely at the intended position, and that the acoustic environments are accurately matched. One effective method for spatialising sound on headphones is through Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs). These characterise how the physical features of a listener modify sound waves befo…

Sora 2 prompt injection #AI
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/3/cameo-prompt-injections/

A new proof of the virtual Haken conjecture
Charalampos Charitos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00617 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00617

A new proof of the virtual Haken conjecture
A new direct proof of the Virtual Haken Conjecture, which asserts that every compact, orientable, irreducible three-dimensional manifold with infinite fundamental group has a finite cover that is Haken, will be given.

Virtual global generation in higher dimensions
Indranil Biswas, Manish Kumar, A. J. Parameswaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Virtual global generation in higher dimensions
The notion of virtual global generation (VGG) for a vector bundle has multiple possible generalization from the case of curves to higher dimensional normal projective varieties. We study relationship between these notions. All these notions agree for curves but in higher dimension we show that this is not the case.

Gauging the Competition: Understanding Social Comparison and Anxiety through Eye-tracking in Virtual Reality Group Interview
Shi-Ting Ni, Kairong Fang, Yuyang Wang, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12590

Gauging the Competition: Understanding Social Comparison and Anxiety through Eye-tracking in Virtual Reality Group Interview
Virtual Reality (VR) is a promising tool for interview training, yet the psychological dynamics of group interviews, such as social comparison, remain underexplored. We investigate this phenomenon by developing an immersive VR group interview system and conducting an eye-tracking study with 73 participants. We manipulated peer performance using ambiguous behavioral cues (e.g., hand-raising) and objective information (public test scores) to measure their effect on participants' attention and sel…

Building and Evaluating a Realistic Virtual World for Large Scale Urban Exploration from 360{\deg} Videos
Mizuki Takenawa, Naoki Sugimoto, Leslie W\"ohler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11447

Building and Evaluating a Realistic Virtual World for Large Scale Urban Exploration from 360° Videos
We propose to build realistic virtual worlds, called 360RVW, for large urban environments directly from 360° videos. We provide an interface for interactive exploration, where users can freely navigate via their own avatars. 360° videos record the entire environment of the shooting location simultaneously leading to highly realistic and immersive representations. Our system uses 360° videos recorded along streets and builds a 360RVW through four main operations: video segmentation by interse…

CISA warns of ‘significant’ threat to federal networks after nation-state hackers stole F5 source code, undisclosed bug info https://therecord.media/cisa-directive-f5-nation-state-incident

Great, the new #Workadventure release finally brings bubbles with more than 4 people, so good! https://github.com/workadventure/workadventure/releases

Releases · workadventure/workadventure
A collaborative web application (virtual office) presented as a 16-bit RPG video game - workadventure/workadventure

A 400 MW virtual power plant of decentralised energy sources, including rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps, for Germany. It's not quite the GWs envisaged earlier, but it's still an impressive achievement.
https://www.pv-magazine.de/…

Enpal erreicht 400 Megawatt Leistung mit virtuellem Kraftwerk
40.000 Kundinnen und Kunden mit insgesamt 100.000 Photovoltaik-Anlagen, Batteriespeichern, Wallboxen und anderen Einheiten sind Enpal zufolge inzwischen beim Ende 2024 gestarteten „Enpal.One+“ vernetzt. Vom angekündigten Ziel, der Bündelung von mehreren Gigawatt Leistung, ist man aber noch ein gutes Stück entfernt.

Parametric Neural Amp Modeling with Active Learning
Florian Gr\"otschla, Longxiang Jiao, Luca A. Lanzend\"orfer, Roger Wattenhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26564 htt…

Parametric Neural Amp Modeling with Active Learning
We introduce Panama, an active learning framework to train parametric guitar amp models end-to-end using a combination of an LSTM model and a WaveNet-like architecture. With \model, one can create a virtual amp by recording samples that are determined through an ensemble-based active learning strategy to minimize the amount of datapoints needed (i.e., amp knob settings). Our strategy uses gradient-based optimization to maximize the disagreement among ensemble models, in order to identify the mo…

General Order Virtual Element Approximation for the Smagorinsky turbulence model
Stefano Berrone, Karol L. Cascavita, Enrique Delgado \'Avila, Samuele Rubino, Maria Strazzullo, Fabio Vicini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03563

General Order Virtual Element Approximation for the Smagorinsky turbulence model
In this paper, we investigate a Smagorinsky model in a virtual element framework to simulate convection-dominated Navier-Stokes equations. We conduct a two-dimensional numerical investigation to assess the performance of the general order virtual element approximation in this context. First, we examine numerically the convergence of the method with respect to the meshsize to certify the novel virtual element numerical discretization, which includes, for the first time, a discretization of the S…

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Slack is testing an AI-based version of Slackbot that acts as a personalized assistant, operating via AWS' virtual private cloud, rolling out by the end of 2025 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade

Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant
Slack is piloting an upgraded Slackbot that will transform the tool into an AI companion that draws from your conversations, workspace, and files to provide customized assistance.

Constraint-Level Design of zkEVMs: Architectures, Trade-offs, and Evolution
Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi, Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05376 https://

Constraint-Level Design of zkEVMs: Architectures, Trade-offs, and Evolution
Zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs) must reconcile a fundamental contradiction: the Ethereum Virtual Machine was designed for transparent sequential execution, while zero-knowledge proofs require algebraic circuit representations. This survey provides the first systematic analysis of how existing major production zkEVM implementations resolve this tension through distinct constraint engineering strategies. We develop a comparative framework that maps the design space across three …

Snapchat launches the Winter Village, a shoppable AR experience that includes Chopard, Lancome, and Boss virtual shops, available through December 31 (Jessica Hammers/Marketing Dive)
https://www.marketingdive.com/news/boss-lancome-op…

Boss, Lancôme open virtual boutiques with Snapchat’s shoppable AR
Chopard and other luxury brands are featured in the Snapchat Winter Village, a digital activation meant to mimic the in-person shopping experience.

Power Reserve Capacity from Virtual Power Plants with Reliability and Cost Guarantees
Lorenzo Zapparoli, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Giovanni Sansavini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04815 htt…

Power Reserve Capacity from Virtual Power Plants with Reliability and Cost Guarantees
The growing penetration of renewable energy sources is expected to drive higher demand for power reserve ancillary services (AS). One solution is to increase the supply by integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) into the AS market through virtual power plants (VPPs). Several methods have been developed to assess the potential of VPPs to provide services. However, the existing approaches fail to account for AS products' requirements (reliability and technical specifications) and to provi…

The Slow Space Editor : Broadening Access to Restorative XR
Nate Laffan, Ashley Hom, Andrea Nadine Castillo, Elizabeth Gitelman, Rebecca Zhao, Nikita Shenoy, Kaia Rae Schweig, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07610

The Slow Space Editor : Broadening Access to Restorative XR
The Slow Space Editor is a 2D tool for creating 3D spaces. It was built as part of a research-through-design project that investigates how Virtual and Mixed Reality (XR) environments might be used for reflection and attention restoration. In this phase, we seek to radically simplify the creation of virtual environments, thereby broadening the potential group of users who could benefit from them. The research described in this paper has three aspects. First, we define the concept of "slow space,…

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Correcting quantum errors using a classical code and one additional qubit
Tenzan Araki, Joseph F. Goodwin, Zhenyu Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05008 https://

Correcting quantum errors using a classical code and one additional qubit
Classical error-correcting codes are powerful but incompatible with quantum noise, which includes both bit-flips and phase-flips. We introduce Hadamard-based Virtual Error Correction (H-VEC), a protocol that empowers any classical bit-flip code to correct arbitrary Pauli noise with the addition of only a single ancilla qubit and two layers of controlled-Hadamard gates. Through classical post-processing, H-VEC virtually filters the error channel, projecting the noise into pure Y-type errors that…

Seeing with sound in safe virtual environments: A walk-in-place #VR #training system for users with visual impairment using the vOICe algorithm https://dl.a…

A “widespread cybersecurity incident” at the Federal Emergency Management Agency occurred when hackers accessed Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure using compromised login credentials, and made off with employee data from both the disaster management office and CBP.

‘Widespread’ breach let hackers steal employee data from FEMA and CBP
A Citrix vulnerability — suspected to have led to firings of multiple FEMA technology staff — enabled the breach, which let hackers pilfer data from FEMA servers connected to states at the southern border.

DiT-VTON: Diffusion Transformer Framework for Unified Multi-Category Virtual Try-On and Virtual Try-All with Integrated Image Editing
Qi Li, Shuwen Qiu, Julien Han, Xingzi Xu, Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu, Kee Kiat Koo, Karim Bouyarmane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04797

DiT-VTON: Diffusion Transformer Framework for Unified Multi-Category Virtual Try-On and Virtual Try-All with Integrated Image Editing
The rapid growth of e-commerce has intensified the demand for Virtual Try-On (VTO) technologies, enabling customers to realistically visualize products overlaid on their own images. Despite recent advances, existing VTO models face challenges with fine-grained detail preservation, robustness to real-world imagery, efficient sampling, image editing capabilities, and generalization across diverse product categories. In this paper, we present DiT-VTON, a novel VTO framework that leverages a Diffus…

"Block VPN users from Wisconsin" means blocking all VPNs, becuase … VPN.
"Websites subject to this proposed law are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all #VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state. One state's terrible law is attempting to break VPN access for the entire internet, and the unintended consequences of …

GS-Verse: Mesh-based Gaussian Splatting for Physics-aware Interaction in Virtual Reality
Anastasiya Pechko, Piotr Borycki, Joanna Waczy\'nska, Daniel Barczyk, Agata Szyma\'nska, S{\l}awomir Tadeja, Przemys{\l}aw Spurek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11878

GS-Verse: Mesh-based Gaussian Splatting for Physics-aware Interaction in Virtual Reality
As the demand for immersive 3D content grows, the need for intuitive and efficient interaction methods becomes paramount. Current techniques for physically manipulating 3D content within Virtual Reality (VR) often face significant limitations, including reliance on engineering-intensive processes and simplified geometric representations, such as tetrahedral cages, which can compromise visual fidelity and physical accuracy. In this paper, we introduce \our{} (\textbf{G}aussian \textbf{S}platting…

Joint UE positioning and distributed sensing in the upper mid-band exploiting virtual apertures
Soroush Mesforush, Murat Bayraktar, Nuria Gonz\'alez-Prelcic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25557

Joint UE positioning and distributed sensing in the upper mid-band exploiting virtual apertures
Networks exploiting distributed integrated sensing and communication (DISAC) nodes can provide enhanced localization and sensing performance, further emphasized when operating with large arrays and bandwidths available in the upper mid-band (also known as FR3). In this paper, we consider a DISAC system operating at FR3 where a single base station (BS) acts as the transmitter and several vehicular user equipments (UEs) act as the receivers. We tackle the design of the signal processing chain at …

Russia-linked 'Curly COMrades' turn to malicious virtual machines for digital spy campaigns https://therecord.media/virtual-machines-cyber-espionage-russia-linked-curly-comrades

A categorical perspective on non-abelian localization
Daniel Halpern-Leistner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24009 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24009

A categorical perspective on non-abelian localization
In equivariant geometry, a localization (a.k.a., concentration) theorem is typically interpreted as a relationship between the equivariant geometry of a space with a group action and the geometry of its fixed locus. We take a different perspective, that of non-abelian localization: a localization theorem relates the geometry of an algebraic stack that is equipped with a $Θ$-stratification to the geometry of the centers of this stratification. We establish a ``virtual'' $K$-theoretic non-abelia…

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USC Levan Book Chat—Maya Maskarinec, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20128299/usc-levan-book-chat-maya-maskarinec-domesticating-saints-medieval-and

A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/metaverse-kpop-idols/

The metaverse is rewriting the rules of who can be a K-pop star
In an industry studded with megastars like BTS and Blackpink, virtual idols are building powerful new fandoms even while their true identities remain obscured.

Incomplete Air Mixing Reduces the Efficiency of Commercial Buildings Behaving as Virtual Batteries
Austin J. Lin, Jacques A. de Chalendar, Johanna L. Mathieu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02933

Incomplete Air Mixing Reduces the Efficiency of Commercial Buildings Behaving as Virtual Batteries
Commercial building Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems can provide flexibility to the electricity grid. Some researchers have found it convenient to model HVAC systems as virtual batteries. These models also better align with models used by grid planners and operators. However, experiments have shown that HVAC load shifting can be inefficient, and virtual battery models do not capture this inefficiency well. While the models typically use the average room temperature as t…

Moonlake AI, which creates tools to "vibe code virtual worlds", including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem
Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people "vibe code virtual worlds."

Social Simulation for Integrating Self-Care: Measuring the Effects of Contextual Environments in Augmented Reality for Mental Health Practice
Anna Fang, Jiayang Shi, Hriday Chhabria, Bosi Li, Haiyi Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12081

Social Simulation for Integrating Self-Care: Measuring the Effects of Contextual Environments in Augmented Reality for Mental Health Practice
Despite growing interest in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) for mental well-being, prior work using immersive interventions to teach mental health skills has largely focused on calming or abstract settings. As a result, little is known about how realistic social simulation may better support the transfer and application of skills to in-person environments. In this work, we present a 14-day user study with 43-participants comparing an augmented reality intervention simulating a realistic c…

AvatarVTON: 4D Virtual Try-On for Animatable Avatars
Zicheng Jiang, Jixin Gao, Shengfeng He, Xinzhe Li, Yulong Zheng, Zhaotong Yang, Junyu Dong, Yong Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04822

AvatarVTON: 4D Virtual Try-On for Animatable Avatars
We propose AvatarVTON, the first 4D virtual try-on framework that generates realistic try-on results from a single in-shop garment image, enabling free pose control, novel-view rendering, and diverse garment choices. Unlike existing methods, AvatarVTON supports dynamic garment interactions under single-view supervision, without relying on multi-view garment captures or physics priors. The framework consists of two key modules: (1) a Reciprocal Flow Rectifier, a prior-free optical-flow correctio…

Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: the TTC-AMD study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0337549

Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: The TTC-AMD study
Little is known about whether and to what degree people with different amounts of visual impairment rely on hearing instead of vision for mobility, particularly in judgments of collision. We measured how much importance was assigned to visual and auditory cues during time-to-collision judgments made by people with age-related macular degeneration (Impaired Vision Group; IV) compared to a control group without age-related macular degeneration (Normal Vision Group; NV). A virtual reality system s…

Storyteller: "Bella is most likely best equipped to disassemble the device."
Bella (un-awakened mage): *disassembles device with a baseball bat*
Hermetic: "Let's take it to the Virtual Adepts, to see what they say."
Sam 'Segfault' (VA): *Looks distressed at the remains*
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USC Levan Book Chat—Maya Maskarinec, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
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Moonlake AI, which offers tools to help users "vibe code virtual worlds", including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem
Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people "vibe code virtual worlds."

The Interplay of Attention and Memory in Visual Enumeration
B. Sankar, Devottama Sen, Dibakar Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05833 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

The Interplay of Attention and Memory in Visual Enumeration
Humans navigate and understand complex visual environments by subconsciously quantifying what they see, a process known as visual enumeration. However, traditional studies using flat screens fail to capture the cognitive dynamics of this process over the large visual fields of real-world scenes. To address this gap, we developed an immersive virtual reality system with integrated eye-tracking to investigate the interplay between attention and memory during complex enumeration. We conducted a tw…

Midi, which offers virtual care for women and is developing an AI search engine for health info, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$150M (Rebecca Torrence/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/womens-health-st…

Midi Health raises $50 million in funding as the menopause startup bets on longevity and AI
Midi's Series C raise comes as the startup's menopause care business surges. The company is now posting a $150 million revenue run rate.

Mono4DEditor: Text-Driven 4D Scene Editing from Monocular Video via Point-Level Localization of Language-Embedded Gaussians
Jin-Chuan Shi, Chengye Su, Jiajun Wang, Ariel Shamir, Miao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09438

Mono4DEditor: Text-Driven 4D Scene Editing from Monocular Video via Point-Level Localization of Language-Embedded Gaussians
Editing 4D scenes reconstructed from monocular videos based on text prompts is a valuable yet challenging task with broad applications in content creation and virtual environments. The key difficulty lies in achieving semantically precise edits in localized regions of complex, dynamic scenes, while preserving the integrity of unedited content. To address this, we introduce Mono4DEditor, a novel framework for flexible and accurate text-driven 4D scene editing. Our method augments 3D Gaussians wi…

Generative Multi-Sensory Meditation: Exploring Immersive Depth and Activation in Virtual Reality
Yuyang Jiang, Binzhu Xie, Lina Xu, Xiaokang Lei, Shi Qiu, Luwen Yu, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11830

Generative Multi-Sensory Meditation: Exploring Immersive Depth and Activation in Virtual Reality
Mindfulness meditation has seen increasing applications in diverse domains as an effective practice to improve mental health. However, the standardized frameworks adopted by most applications often fail to cater to users with various psychological states and health conditions. This limitation arises primarily from the lack of personalization and adaptive content design. To address this, we propose MindfulVerse, an AI-Generated Content (AIGC)-driven application to create personalized and immersi…

TALK> SSJR: A VIRTUAL BOOK TALK WITH DR. SHAYNE DAHL, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
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Locability: An Ability-Based Ranking Model for Virtual Reality Locomotion Techniques
Rachel L. Franz, Jacob O. Wobbrock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05679 https://

Locability: An Ability-Based Ranking Model for Virtual Reality Locomotion Techniques
There are over a hundred virtual reality (VR) locomotion techniques that exist today, with new ones being designed as VR technology evolves. The different ways of controlling locomotion techniques (e.g., gestures, button inputs, body movements), along with the diversity of upper-body motor impairments, can make it difficult for a user to know which locomotion technique is best suited to their particular abilities. Moreover, trial-and-error can be difficult, time-consuming, and costly. Using mac…

Beyond the Empathy Machine: Critical Perspectives on Virtual Reality (Book)
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CLAd-VR: Cognitive Load-based Adaptive Training for Machining Tasks in Virtual Reality
Bhavya Matam, Adamay Mann, Kachina Studer, Christian Gabbianelli, Sonia Castelo, John Liu, Claudio Silva, Dishita Turakhia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05249

CLAd-VR: Cognitive Load-based Adaptive Training for Machining Tasks in Virtual Reality
With the growing need to effectively support workforce upskilling in the manufacturing sector, virtual reality is gaining popularity as a scalable training solution. However, most current systems are designed as static, step-by-step tutorials and do not adapt to a learner's needs or cognitive load, which is a critical factor in learning and longterm retention. We address this limitation with CLAd-VR, an adaptive VR training system that integrates realtime EEG-based sensing to measure the learne…

"Can I Decorate My Teeth With Diamonds?": Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Using VR to Reduce Children's Dental Anxiety
Yaxuan Mao, Yanheng Li, Duo Gong, Pengcheng An, Yuhan Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10019

"Can I Decorate My Teeth With Diamonds?": Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Using VR to Reduce Children's Dental Anxiety
Dental anxiety is prevalent among children, often leading to missed treatment and potential negative effects on their mental well-being. While several interventions (e.g., pharmacological and psychotherapeutic techniques) have been introduced for anxiety alleviation, the recently emerged virtual reality (VR) technology, with its immersive and playful nature, opened new opportunities for complementing and enhancing the therapeutic effects of existing interventions. In this light, we conducted a …

Komitee Equal Shares: Choosing Together as Voters and as Groups with a Co-designed Virtual Budget Algorithm
Joshua C. Yang, Noemi Scheurer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02040 https…

Komitee Equal Shares: Choosing Together as Voters and as Groups with a Co-designed Virtual Budget Algorithm
Public funding processes demand fairness, learning, and outcomes that participants can understand. We introduce Komitee Equal Shares, a priceable virtual-budget allocation framework that integrates two signals: in voter mode, participants cast point votes; in evaluator mode, small groups assess proposals against collectively defined impact fields. The framework extends the Method of Equal Shares by translating both signals into virtual spending power and producing voting receipts. We deployed t…

Pre/Absence: Prompting Cultural Awareness and Understanding for Lost Architectural Heritage in Virtual Reality
Yaning Li, Ke Zhao, Shucheng Zheng, Xingyu Chen, Chenyi Chen, Wenxi Dai, Weile Jiang, Qi Dong, Yiqing Zhao, Meng Li, Lin-Ping Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07967

Pre/Absence: Prompting Cultural Awareness and Understanding for Lost Architectural Heritage in Virtual Reality
Lost architectural heritage presents interpretive challenges due to vanished structures and fragmented historical records. Using Hanyuan Hall of the Tang dynasty's Daming Palace as a case study, we conducted a formative investigation with archaeologists, heritage administrators, and visitors to identify key issues in current interpretation practices. We found that these practices often compress complex cultural layers into factual summaries and rely on linear narratives that overlook the contin…