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Gameplay von "Thief VR" enthüllt: So spielt sich die Neuauflage des Klassikers
Die Thief-Reihe kehrt zurück: Dieses Mal wird in Virtual Reality geschlichen, gelauert und gestohlen. Wie das aussieht, zeigt ein neuer Gameplay-Trailer.

Community Analysis of Social Virtual Reality Based on Large-Scale Log Data of a Commercial Metaverse Platform
Hiroto Tsutsui, Takefumi Hiraki, Yuichi Hiroi, Shoichi Hasegawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23654

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 …

No Man's Sky: Voyagers-Update nutzt erstmals KI-Upscaling für Virtual Reality
Mit dem neuesten Update von No Man’s Sky erhält PlayStation VR2 erstmals Unterstützung für Sonys Upscaling-Technologie "PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution".

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

Modeling and Exploiting the Time Course of Chromatic Adaptation for Display Power Optimizations in Virtual Reality
Ethan Chen, Sushant Kondguli, Carl Marshall, Yuhao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23489

Modeling and Exploiting the Time Course of Chromatic Adaptation for Display Power Optimizations in Virtual Reality
We introduce a gaze-tracking--free method to reduce OLED display power consumption in VR with minimal perceptual impact. This technique exploits the time course of chromatic adaptation, the human visual system's ability to maintain stable color perception under changing illumination. To that end, we propose a novel psychophysical paradigm that models how human adaptation state changes with the scene illuminant. We exploit this model to compute an optimal illuminant shift trajectory, controlling…

A Soft Fabric-Based Thermal Haptic Device for VR and Teleoperation
Rui Chen, Domenico Chiaradia, Antonio Frisoli, Daniele Leonardis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20831 https://

A Soft Fabric-Based Thermal Haptic Device for VR and Teleoperation
This paper presents a novel fabric-based thermal-haptic interface for virtual reality and teleoperation. It integrates pneumatic actuation and conductive fabric with an innovative ultra-lightweight design, achieving only 2~g for each finger unit. By embedding heating elements within textile pneumatic chambers, the system delivers modulated pressure and thermal stimuli to fingerpads through a fully soft, wearable interface. Comprehensive characterization demonstrates rapid thermal modulation w…

Composable Life: Speculation for Decentralized AI Life
Botao Amber Hu, Fangting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20668 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20668

Composable Life: Speculation for Decentralized AI Life
"Composable Life" is a hybrid project blending design fiction, experiential virtual reality, and scientific research. Through a multi-perspective, cross-media approach to speculative design, it reshapes our understanding of the digital future from AI's perspective. The project explores the hypothetical first suicide of an on-chain artificial life, examining the complex symbiotic relationship between humans, AI, and blockchain technology.

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

Understanding Cognitive States from Head & Hand Motion Data
Kaiang Wen, Mark Roman Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24255 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2…

Understanding Cognitive States from Head & Hand Motion Data
As virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) continue to gain popularity, head and hand motion data captured by consumer VR systems have become ubiquitous. Prior work shows that such telemetry can be highly identifying and reflect broad user traits, often aligning with intuitive "folk theories" of body language. However, it remains unclear to what extent motion kinematics encode more nuanced cognitive states, such as confusion, hesitation, and readiness, which lack clear correlates with m…

Virtual Reality mit ChatGPT: Sprachgesteuerte Hand ersetzt Controller
Eine virtuelle Hand soll Sprachbefehlen folgen und Virtual Reality auch ohne Hände und Controller nutzbar machen – dank ChatGPT.
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AUTOVR: Automated UI Exploration for Detecting Sensitive Data Flow Exposures in Virtual Reality Apps
John Y. Kim, Chaoshun Zuo, Yanjie Zhao, Zhiqiang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12187

AUTOVR: Automated UI Exploration for Detecting Sensitive Data Flow Exposures in Virtual Reality Apps
The rise of Virtual Reality (VR) has provided developers with an unprecedented platform for creating games and applications (apps) that require distinct inputs, different from those of conventional devices like smartphones. The Meta Quest VR platform, driven by Meta, has democratized VR app publishing and attracted millions of users worldwide. However, as the number of published apps grows, there is a notable lack of robust headless tools for user interface (UI) exploration and user event testi…

Tabletop-Strategie in Virtual Reality: "Grit and Valor – 1949 VR" ausprobiert
Strategiefans dürfen sich in "Grit and Valor – 1949 VR" auf Miniatur-Schlachten mit Mechs freuen, müssen sich aber auf eine unpräzise Steuerung einstellen.

Unity based virtual reality for detector and event visualization in JUNO experiment
Kai-Xuan Huang, Tian-Zi Song, Yu-Ning Su, Cheng-Xin Wu, Xue-Sen Wang, Yu-Mei Zhang, Zheng-Yun You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16285

Unity based virtual reality for detector and event visualization in JUNO experiment
Detector and event visualization are crucial components of high-energy physics~(HEP) experimental software. Virtual Reality~(VR) technologies and multimedia development platforms such as Unity offer enhanced display effects and flexible extensibility for visualization in HEP experiments. In this study, we present a VR-based method for detector and event displays in the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory~(JUNO) experiment. This method shares the same detector geometry descriptions and eve…

Predicting User Grasp Intentions in Virtual Reality
Linghao Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16582 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16582

Predicting User Grasp Intentions in Virtual Reality
Predicting user intentions in virtual reality (VR) is crucial for creating immersive experiences, particularly in tasks involving complex grasping motions where accurate haptic feedback is essential. In this work, we leverage time-series data from hand movements to evaluate both classification and regression approaches across 810 trials with varied object types, sizes, and manipulations. Our findings reveal that classification models struggle to generalize across users, leading to inconsistent …

No Man's Sky: Voyagers-Update nutzt erstmals KI-Upscaling für Virtual Reality #PS5 #PSVR2 #PSSR #PS5pro

No Man's Sky: Voyagers-Update nutzt erstmals KI-Upscaling für Virtual Reality
Mit dem neuesten Update von No Man’s Sky erhält PlayStation VR2 erstmals Unterstützung für Sonys Upscaling-Technologie "PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution".

Samsung's bold move: Standalone smart glasses set to launch next year https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/samsung-rumored-standalone-smart-glasses-next-year-compete-meta-google I *love* st…

Samsung's bold move: Standalone smart glasses set to launch next year
This is reportedly to help Samsung solidify itself as a known smart glasses-maker, but it's still looking to collaborate with Google.

PolGS: Polarimetric Gaussian Splatting for Fast Reflective Surface Reconstruction
Yufei Han, Bowen Tie, Heng Guo, Youwei Lyu, Si Li, Boxin Shi, Yunpeng Jia, Zhanyu Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19726

PolGS: Polarimetric Gaussian Splatting for Fast Reflective Surface Reconstruction
Efficient shape reconstruction for surfaces with complex reflectance properties is crucial for real-time virtual reality. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based methods offer fast novel view rendering by leveraging their explicit surface representation, their reconstruction quality lags behind that of implicit neural representations, particularly in the case of recovering surfaces with complex reflective reflectance. To address these problems, we propose PolGS, a Polarimetric Gaussian Splatti…

py360tool: Um framework para manipula\c{c}\~ao de v\'ideo 360$^\circ$ com ladrilhos
Henrique Domingues Garcia, Marcelo Menezes de Carvalho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17428 h…

py360tool: Um framework para manipulação de vídeo 360$^\circ$ com ladrilhos
Streaming 360$^\circ$ videos for virtual reality demands a lot of bandwidth. To optimize this transmission, videos are divided into "tiles" and selectively distributed to the user based on what they are looking at. This interactive approach makes it difficult to assess quality and user experience. To solve this, the paper presents py360tools, a Python library that automates client-side tasks like video reconstruction, tile selection, and viewport extraction. This facilitates the reproduction, s…

Adventure-Klassiker neu aufgelegt: Syberia erscheint als Remaster und VR-Version
"Syberia" kehrt zurück. Ein Remaster modernisiert den Adventure-Klassiker für PC, Konsole und erstmals in Virtual Reality.

Virtual Reality in Sign Language Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Refia Daya, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17362 …

Virtual Reality in Sign Language Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Sign language (SL) is an essential mode of communication for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) individuals. Its education remains limited by the lack of qualified instructors, insufficient early exposure, and the inadequacy of traditional teaching methods. Recent advances in Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer promising new approaches to enhance sign language learning through immersive, interactive, and feedback-rich environments. This paper presents a systematic review of …

😎 Virtual reality shows promise in easing stress for cardiac patients
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Virtual reality shows promise in easing stress for cardiac patients
Living with cardiovascular disease often takes a serious emotional toll—and with stress known to worsen heart health, there's growing interest in low-risk, innovative ways to help patients cope. New research from UCLA Health suggests that virtual reality (VR) may offer a promising tool to ease psychological stress and support heart health.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.MM. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.MM/new
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- Predicting User Grasp Intentions in Virtual Reality
Linghao Zeng
https://…

Towards Deeper Understanding of Natural User Interactions in Virtual Reality Based Assembly Tasks
Ryan Ghamandi, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Ravi Kiran Kattoju, Joseph J. LaViola Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17124

Towards Deeper Understanding of Natural User Interactions in Virtual Reality Based Assembly Tasks
We explore natural user interactions using a virtual reality simulation of a robot arm for assembly tasks. Using a Wizard-of-Oz study, participants completed collaborative LEGO and instructive PCB assembly tasks, with the robot responding under experimenter control. We collected voice, hand tracking, and gaze data from users. Statistical analyses revealed that instructive and collaborative scenarios elicit distinct behaviors and adopted strategies, particularly as tasks progress. Users tended t…

Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/09/08/meta-r…

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

VR ohne Übelkeit: Wie sich Motion Sickness vermeiden lässt
Motion Sickness kann einem die Lust an Virtual Reality verderben. Was dahintersteckt und wie man damit umgehen kann, erklärt unser Ratgeber.
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ArchGPT: Understanding the World's Architectures with Large Multimodal Models
Yuze Wang, Luo Yang, Junyi Wang, Yue Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20858 https://

ArchGPT: Understanding the World's Architectures with Large Multimodal Models
Architecture embodies aesthetic, cultural, and historical values, standing as a tangible testament to human civilization. Researchers have long leveraged virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and augmented reality (AR) to enable immersive exploration and interpretation of architecture, enhancing accessibility, public understanding, and creative workflows around architecture in education, heritage preservation, and professional design practice. However, existing VR/MR/AR systems are often de…

Physiological Signal-Driven QoE Optimization for Wireless Virtual Reality Transmission
Chang Wu, Yuang Chen, Yiyuan Chen, Fengqian Guo, Xiaowei Qin, Hancheng Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09151

Physiological Signal-Driven QoE Optimization for Wireless Virtual Reality Transmission
Abrupt resolution changes in virtual reality (VR) streaming can significantly impair the quality-of-experience (QoE) of users, particularly during transitions from high to low resolutions. Existing QoE models and transmission schemes inadequately address the perceptual impact of these shifts. To bridge this gap, this article proposes, for the first time, an innovative physiological signal-driven QoE modeling and optimization framework that fully leverages users' electroencephalogram (EEG), elec…

Data Center Map - Colocation, Cloud and Connectivity
Do you want to check where your data is geographically located or which providers are your "neighbors"? Here you can watch it online worldwide – in other words: virtual reality in real world gegography.
🗺️ https://www.datacentermap.com

FSGlove: An Inertial-Based Hand Tracking System with Shape-Aware Calibration
Yutong Li, Jieyi Zhang, Wenqiang Xu, Tutian Tang, Cewu Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21242 https://

FSGlove: An Inertial-Based Hand Tracking System with Shape-Aware Calibration
Accurate hand motion capture (MoCap) is vital for applications in robotics, virtual reality, and biomechanics, yet existing systems face limitations in capturing high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) joint kinematics and personalized hand shape. Commercial gloves offer up to 21 DoFs, which are insufficient for complex manipulations while neglecting shape variations that are critical for contact-rich tasks. We present FSGlove, an inertial-based system that simultaneously tracks up to 48 DoFs and reconstr…

The Rhythm of Tai Chi: Revitalizing Cultural Heritage in Virtual Reality through Interactive Visuals
Xianghan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16605 https://

The Rhythm of Tai Chi: Revitalizing Cultural Heritage in Virtual Reality through Interactive Visuals
The Rhythm of Tai Chi reinterprets the ancient Chinese martial art as a dynamic, interactive virtual reality (VR) experience. By leveraging computer vision and multimedia technologies, the project transforms Tai Chi's philosophy and movements into an immersive digital form. Real-time motion tracking captures user gestures, while visual feedback systems simulate the flow of Qi, enabling an intuitive and engaging practice environment. Beyond technological innovation, this work bridges traditional…

PGSTalker: Real-Time Audio-Driven Talking Head Generation via 3D Gaussian Splatting with Pixel-Aware Density Control
Tianheng Zhu, Yinfeng Yu, Liejun Wang, Fuchun Sun, Wendong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16922

PGSTalker: Real-Time Audio-Driven Talking Head Generation via 3D Gaussian Splatting with Pixel-Aware Density Control
Audio-driven talking head generation is crucial for applications in virtual reality, digital avatars, and film production. While NeRF-based methods enable high-fidelity reconstruction, they suffer from low rendering efficiency and suboptimal audio-visual synchronization. This work presents PGSTalker, a real-time audio-driven talking head synthesis framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). To improve rendering performance, we propose a pixel-aware density control strategy that adaptively …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- The Dual Impact of Virtual Reality: Examining the Addictive Potential and Therapeutic Application...
Ljubisa Bojic, Joerg Matthes, Agariadne Dwinggo Samala, Milan Cabarkapa

StimulHeat: a Low-Energy Wearable Thermal Feedback Device Using Peltier Elements with Heat Flow Controlled Loop for Hand Interactions in Virtual Reality
Matthieu Mesnage, Sophie Villenave, Bertrand Massot, Matthieu Blanchard, Pierre Raimbaud, Guillaume Lavou\'e, Claudine Gehin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05020

StimulHeat: a Low-Energy Wearable Thermal Feedback Device Using Peltier Elements with Heat Flow Controlled Loop for Hand Interactions in Virtual Reality
Nowadays, the majority of wearable thermal feedback systems designed for use in virtual reality applications are not compatible or not integrated to standard controllers and are based on temperature control. The objectives of the present work is to enable integration with existing controllers, in this case Valve Index controllers, and to propose an alternative approach to managing thermal stimulation with Peltier modules by controlling heat flow instead of temperature. We introduce StimulHeat a…

Virtual Reality auf der Connect 2025: So sieht Metas neue VR-Strategie aus
Bei der Connect 2025 dreht sich fast alles um KI-Brillen und neue Interfaces. Virtual Reality bleibt zwar im Programm, aber der Fokus verlagert sich sichtbar.

Dank VR-Brille vom Krankenbett aufs Oktoberfest
Kinder, die im Krankenhaus liegen, können nicht aufs Oktoberfest. Virtual Reality bringt sie dort virtuell hin und sorgt für ein besseres Wohlbefinden.
https://www.

A Neurosymbolic Framework for Interpretable Cognitive Attack Detection in Augmented Reality
Rongqian Chen, Allison Andreyev, Yanming Xiu, Mahdi Imani, Bin Li, Maria Gorlatova, Gang Tan, Tian Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09185

A Neurosymbolic Framework for Interpretable Cognitive Attack Detection in Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) enriches perception by overlaying virtual elements on the physical world. Due to its growing popularity, cognitive attacks that alter AR content to manipulate users' semantic perception have received increasing attention. Existing detection methods often focus on visual changes, which are restricted to pixel- or image-level processing and lack semantic reasoning capabilities, or they rely on pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), which function as black-box approaches…

Virtual Reality für Senioren: Wie virtuelle Reisen Erinnerungen zurückbringen
Ein junges deutsches Unternehmen zeigt, wie Virtual Reality Nähe, Erinnerung und Teilhabe für ältere Menschen schaffen kann.

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Andrey Krekhov, Sebastian Cmentowski, Katharina Emmerich, Maic Masuch, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11304

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Virtual reality games are often centered around our feeling of "being there". That presence can be significantly enhanced by supporting physical walking. Although modern virtual reality systems enable room-scale motions, the size of our living rooms is not enough to explore vast virtual environments. Developers bypass that limitation by adding virtual navigation such as teleportation. Although such techniques are intended (or designed) to extend but not replace natural walking, what we often ob…

BEAVR: Bimanual, multi-Embodiment, Accessible, Virtual Reality Teleoperation System for Robots
Alejandro Posadas-Nava, Alejandro Carrasco, Richard Linares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09606

BEAVR: Bimanual, multi-Embodiment, Accessible, Virtual Reality Teleoperation System for Robots
\textbf{BEAVR} is an open-source, bimanual, multi-embodiment Virtual Reality (VR) teleoperation system for robots, designed to unify real-time control, data recording, and policy learning across heterogeneous robotic platforms. BEAVR enables real-time, dexterous teleoperation using commodity VR hardware, supports modular integration with robots ranging from 7-DoF manipulators to full-body humanoids, and records synchronized multi-modal demonstrations directly in the LeRobot dataset schema. Our …

Hybrelighter: Combining Deep Anisotropic Diffusion and Scene Reconstruction for On-device Real-time Relighting in Mixed Reality
Hanwen Zhao, John Akers, Baback Elmieh, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14930

Hybrelighter: Combining Deep Anisotropic Diffusion and Scene Reconstruction for On-device Real-time Relighting in Mixed Reality
Mixed Reality scene relighting, where virtual changes to lighting conditions realistically interact with physical objects, producing authentic illumination and shadows, can be used in a variety of applications. One such application in real estate could be visualizing a room at different times of day and placing virtual light fixtures. Existing deep learning-based relighting techniques typically exceed the real-time performance capabilities of current MR devices. On the other hand, scene underst…

🥓 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.

Attention is also needed for form design
B. Sankar, Dibakar Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19708 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19708

Attention is also needed for form design
Conventional product design is a cognitively demanding process, limited by its time-consuming nature, reliance on subjective expertise, and the opaque translation of inspiration into tangible concepts. This research introduces a novel, attention-aware framework that integrates two synergistic systems: EUPHORIA, an immersive Virtual Reality environment using eye-tracking to implicitly capture a designer's aesthetic preferences, and RETINA, an agentic AI pipeline that translates these implicit pr…

Brettspiele in Virtual Reality: All on Board kündigt neue Lizenztitel an
All on Board erweitert seine VR-Brettspielplattform um "Aye, Dark Overlord!" und neue Social-Features für einfachere Spielplanung und bessere Lerntools.

Native Mixed Reality Compositing on Meta Quest 3: A Quantitative Feasibility Study of ARM-Based SoCs and Thermal Headroom
Muhammad Kaif Laghari, Areeb Ahmed Shaikh, Faiz Khan, Aafia Gul Siddiqui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18929

XR Reality Check: What Commercial Devices Deliver for Spatial Tracking
Tianyi Hu, Tianyuan Du, Zhehan Qu, Maria Gorlatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08642 https://

XR Reality Check: What Commercial Devices Deliver for Spatial Tracking
Inaccurate spatial tracking in extended reality (XR) devices leads to virtual object jitter, misalignment, and user discomfort, fundamentally limiting immersive experiences and natural interactions. In this work, we introduce a novel testbed that enables simultaneous, synchronized evaluation of multiple XR devices under identical environmental and kinematic conditions. Leveraging this platform, we present the first comprehensive empirical benchmarking of five state-of-the-art XR devices across …

Outpace Reality: A Novel Augmented-Walking Technique for Virtual Reality Games
Sebastian Cmentowski, Fabian Kievelitz, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11314 https:…

Outpace Reality: A Novel Augmented-Walking Technique for Virtual Reality Games
The size of most virtual environments exceeds the tracking space available for physical walking. One solution to this disparity is to extend the available walking range by augmenting users' actual movements. However, the resulting increase in visual flow can easily cause cybersickness. Therefore, we present a novel augmented-walking approach for virtual reality games. Our core concept is a virtual tunnel that spans the entire travel distance when viewed from the outside. However, its interior i…

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…

Random-phase Gaussian Wave Splatting for Computer-generated Holography
Brian Chao, Jacqueline Yang, Suyeon Choi, Manu Gopakumar, Ryota Koiso, Gordon Wetzstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17480

Random-phase Gaussian Wave Splatting for Computer-generated Holography
Holographic near-eye displays offer ultra-compact form factors for virtual and augmented reality systems, but rely on advanced computer-generated holography (CGH) algorithms to convert 3D scenes into interference patterns that can be displayed on spatial light modulators (SLMs). Gaussian Wave Splatting (GWS) has recently emerged as a powerful CGH paradigm that allows for the conversion of Gaussians, a state-of-the-art neural 3D representation, into holograms. However, GWS assumes smooth-phase d…

I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
Zhongyi Bai, Jens Emil Gr{\o}nb{\ae}k, Andrew Irlitti, Jarrod Knibbe, Eduardo Velloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17676

I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
We propose and explore the user experience of SEAM -- Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings -- virtual reality meetings in which embodied virtual agents represent absent users. During the meeting, attendees can address the agent, and the absent user can later watch the recording from its perspective to respond. Through two mixed-method studies with 45 participants using the Wizard-of-Oz approach, we explored both the perspectives of the attendees in the original meeting and of the absent user…

Generation of Real-time Robotic Emotional Expressions Learning from Human Demonstration in Mixed Reality
Chao Wang, Michael Gienger, Fan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08999 h…

Generation of Real-time Robotic Emotional Expressions Learning from Human Demonstration in Mixed Reality
Expressive behaviors in robots are critical for effectively conveying their emotional states during interactions with humans. In this work, we present a framework that autonomously generates realistic and diverse robotic emotional expressions based on expert human demonstrations captured in Mixed Reality (MR). Our system enables experts to teleoperate a virtual robot from a first-person perspective, capturing their facial expressions, head movements, and upper-body gestures, and mapping these b…

SPATIALGEN: Layout-guided 3D Indoor Scene Generation
Chuan Fang, Heng Li, Yixun Liang, Jia Zheng, Yongsen Mao, Yuan Liu, Rui Tang, Zihan Zhou, Ping Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14981

SPATIALGEN: Layout-guided 3D Indoor Scene Generation
Creating high-fidelity 3D models of indoor environments is essential for applications in design, virtual reality, and robotics. However, manual 3D modeling remains time-consuming and labor-intensive. While recent advances in generative AI have enabled automated scene synthesis, existing methods often face challenges in balancing visual quality, diversity, semantic consistency, and user control. A major bottleneck is the lack of a large-scale, high-quality dataset tailored to this task. To addre…

Impact of Target and Tool Visualization on Depth Perception and Usability in Optical See-Through AR
Yue Yang, Xue Xie, Xinkai Wang, Hui Zhang, Chiming Yu, Xiaoxian Xiong, Lifeng Zhu, Yuanyi Zheng, Jue Cen, Bruce Daniel, Fred Baik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18481

Impact of Target and Tool Visualization on Depth Perception and Usability in Optical See-Through AR
Optical see-through augmented reality (OST-AR) systems like Microsoft HoloLens 2 hold promise for arm's distance guidance (e.g., surgery), but depth perception of the hologram and occlusion of real instruments remain challenging. We present an evaluation of how visualizing the target object with different transparencies and visualizing a tracked tool (virtual proxy vs. real tool vs. no tool tracking) affects depth perception and system usability. Ten participants performed two experiments on Ho…

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…

VR-Risiken für Kinder: Meta hat Forschung beeinflusst, sagen Whistleblower
Zwei ehemalige Mitarbeiter werfen Meta vor, Einfluss auf Forschung zu Risiken von Virtual Reality für Kinder genommen zu haben.

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13116 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Virtual reality (VR) development relies on game engines to provide real-time rendering, physics simulation, and interaction systems. Among the most widely used game engines, Unreal Engine and Unity dominate the industry, offering distinct advantages in graphics rendering, performance optimization, usability, resource requirements, and scalability. This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of both engines, evaluating their capabilities and trade-offs through empirical assessments …

Out-of-Sight Trajectories: Tracking, Fusion, and Prediction
Haichao Zhang, Yi Xu, Yun Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15219 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15219

Out-of-Sight Trajectories: Tracking, Fusion, and Prediction
Trajectory prediction is a critical task in computer vision and autonomous systems, playing a key role in autonomous driving, robotics, surveillance, and virtual reality. Existing methods often rely on complete and noise-free observational data, overlooking the challenges associated with out-of-sight objects and the inherent noise in sensor data caused by limited camera coverage, obstructions, and the absence of ground truth for denoised trajectories. These limitations pose safety risks and hin…

What if Virtual Agents Had Scents? Users' Judgments of Virtual Agent Personality and Appeals in Encounters
Dongyun Han, Siyeon Bak, So-Hui Kim, Kangsoo Kim, Sun-Jeong Kim, Isaac Cho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11342

What if Virtual Agents Had Scents? Users' Judgments of Virtual Agent Personality and Appeals in Encounters
Incorporating multi-sensory cues into Virtual Reality (VR) can significantly enhance user experiences, mirroring the multi-sensory interactions we encounter in the real-world. Olfaction plays a crucial role in shaping impressions when engaging with others. This study examines how non-verbal cues from virtual agents-specifically olfactory cues, emotional expressions, and gender-influence user perceptions during encounters with virtual agents. Our findings indicate that in unscented, woodsy, and …

Portable Silent Room: Exploring VR Design for Anxiety and Emotion Regulation for Neurodivergent Women and Non-Binary Individuals
Kinga Skiers, Yun Suen Pai, Marina Nakagawa, Kouta Minamizawa, Giulia Barbareschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18591

Portable Silent Room: Exploring VR Design for Anxiety and Emotion Regulation for Neurodivergent Women and Non-Binary Individuals
Neurodivergent individuals, particularly those with Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), frequently experience anxiety, panic attacks, meltdowns, and emotional dysregulation due to societal pressures and inadequate accommodations. These challenges are especially pronounced for neurodivergent women and non-binary individuals navigating intersecting barriers of neurological differences and gender expectations. This research investigates virtual reality (VR) as a portable sa…

IntelliCap: Intelligent Guidance for Consistent View Sampling
Ayaka Yasunaga, Hideo Saito, Dieter Schmalstieg, Shohei Mori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13043 https://

IntelliCap: Intelligent Guidance for Consistent View Sampling
Novel view synthesis from images, for example, with 3D Gaussian splatting, has made great progress. Rendering fidelity and speed are now ready even for demanding virtual reality applications. However, the problem of assisting humans in collecting the input images for these rendering algorithms has received much less attention. High-quality view synthesis requires uniform and dense view sampling. Unfortunately, these requirements are not easily addressed by human camera operators, who are in a h…

Gesture Evaluation in Virtual Reality
Axel Wiebe Werner, Jonas Beskow, Anna Deichler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12816 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12816

Gesture Evaluation in Virtual Reality
Gestures are central to human communication, enriching interactions through non-verbal expression. Virtual avatars increasingly use AI-generated gestures to enhance life-likeness, yet evaluations have largely been confined to 2D. Virtual Reality (VR) provides an immersive alternative that may affect how gestures are perceived. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of computer-generated gestures in VR and 2D, examining three models from the 2023 GENEA Challenge. Results show that gestures…

VR in den 90ern: Die gescheiterten VR-Brillen von Nintendo, Atari, Sega & Hasbro
In den 1990ern wollten Nintendo, Sega, Atari und Hasbro Virtual Reality ins Wohnzimmer bringen – und scheiterten allesamt an Technik, Kosten und Erwartungen.

Behavioral and Symbolic Fillers as Delay Mitigation for Embodied Conversational Agents in Virtual Reality
Denmar Mojan Gonzales, Snehanjali Kalamkar, Sophie J\"org, Jens Grubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11781

Behavioral and Symbolic Fillers as Delay Mitigation for Embodied Conversational Agents in Virtual Reality
When communicating with embodied conversational agents (ECAs) in virtual reality, there might be delays in the responses of the agents lasting several seconds, for example, due to more extensive computations of the answers when large language models are used. Such delays might lead to unnatural or frustrating interactions. In this paper, we investigate filler types to mitigate these effects and lead to a more positive experience and perception of the agent. In a within-subject study, we asked 2…

Nudging the Somas: Exploring How Live-Configurable Mixed Reality Objects Shape Open-Ended Intercorporeal Movements
Botao Amber Hu, Yilan Elan Tao, Rem RunGu Lin, Mingze Chai, Yuemin Huang, Rakesh Patibanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14432

Nudging the Somas: Exploring How Live-Configurable Mixed Reality Objects Shape Open-Ended Intercorporeal Movements
Mixed Reality (MR) experiences increasingly explore how virtual elements can shape physical behaviour, yet how MR objects guide group movement remains underexplored. We address this gap by examining how virtual objects can nudge collective, co-located movement without relying on explicit instructions or choreography. We developed GravField, a co-located MR performance system where an "object jockey" live-configures virtual objects, springs, ropes, magnets, with real-time, parameterised "digital…

GhostObjects: Instructing Robots by Manipulating Spatially Aligned Virtual Twins in Augmented Reality
Lauren W. Wang, Parastoo Abtahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11022 https://…

GhostObjects: Instructing Robots by Manipulating Spatially Aligned Virtual Twins in Augmented Reality
Robots are increasingly capable of autonomous operations, yet human interaction remains essential for issuing personalized instructions. Instead of directly controlling robots through Programming by Demonstration (PbD) or teleoperation, we propose giving instructions by interacting with GhostObjects-world-aligned, life-size virtual twins of physical objects-in augmented reality (AR). By direct manipulation of GhostObjects, users can precisely specify physical goals and spatial parameters, with …

Virtual Reality User Interface Design: Best Practices and Implementation
Esin Mehmedova, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09358 https://

Virtual Reality User Interface Design: Best Practices and Implementation
Designing effective user interfaces (UIs) for virtual reality (VR) is essential to enhance user immersion, usability, comfort, and accessibility in virtual environments. Despite the growing adoption of VR across domains such as education, healthcare, gaming, and rehabilitation, there is a noticeable lack of unified and comprehensive design guidelines for VR UI design. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify existing best practices and propose complete and un…

Beyond the Portal: Enhancing Recognition in Virtual Reality Through Multisensory Cues
Siyeon Bak, Dongyun Han, Inho Jo, Sun-Jeong Kim, Isaac Cho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11347

Beyond the Portal: Enhancing Recognition in Virtual Reality Through Multisensory Cues
While Virtual Reality (VR) systems have become increasingly immersive, they still rely predominantly on visual input, which can constrain perceptual performance when visual information is limited. Incorporating additional sensory modalities, such as sound and scent, offers a promising strategy to enhance user experience and overcome these limitations. This paper investigates the contribution of auditory and olfactory cues in supporting perception within the portal metaphor, a VR technique that …

Colour Perception in Immersive Virtual Reality: Emotional and Physiological Responses to Fifteen Munsell Hues
Francesco Febbraio, Simona Collina, Christina Lepida, Panagiotis Kourtesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11644

Colour Perception in Immersive Virtual Reality: Emotional and Physiological Responses to Fifteen Munsell Hues
Colour is a fundamental determinant of affective experience in immersive virtual reality (VR), yet the emotional and physiological impact of individual hues remains poorly characterised. This study investigated how fifteen calibrated Munsell hues influence subjective and autonomic responses when presented in immersive VR. Thirty-six adults (18-45 years) viewed each hue in a within-subject design while pupil diameter and skin conductance were recorded continuously, and self-reported emotions wer…

Negative Shanshui: Real-time Interactive Ink Painting Synthesis
Aven-Le Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16612 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16612

Negative Shanshui: Real-time Interactive Ink Painting Synthesis
This paper presents Negative Shanshui, a real-time interactive AI synthesis approach that reinterprets classical Chinese landscape ink painting, i.e., shanshui, to engage with ecological crises in the Anthropocene. Negative Shanshui optimizes a fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model for real-time inferences and integrates it with gaze-driven inpainting, frame interpolation; it enables dynamic morphing animations in response to the viewer's gaze and presents as an interactive virtual reality (VR) exp…

Immersive Invaders: Privacy Threats from Deceptive Design in Virtual Reality Games and Applications
Hilda Hadan, Michaela Valiquette, Lennart E. Nacke, Leah Zhang-Kennedy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09916

Immersive Invaders: Privacy Threats from Deceptive Design in Virtual Reality Games and Applications
Virtual Reality (VR) technologies offer immersive experiences but collect substantial user data. While deceptive design is well-studied in 2D platforms, little is known about its manifestation in VR environments and its impact on user privacy. This research investigates deceptive designs in privacy communication and interaction mechanisms of 12 top-rated VR games and applications through autoethnographic evaluation of the applications and thematic analysis of privacy policies. We found that whi…

Training Spatial Ability in Virtual Reality
Yiannos Demetriou, Manasvi Parikh, Sara Eskandari, Westley Weimer, Madeline Endres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10195 https://

Training Spatial Ability in Virtual Reality
Background: Spatial reasoning has been identified as a critical skill for success in STEM. Unfortunately, under-represented groups often have lower incoming spatial ability. Courses that improve spatial skills exist but are not widely used. Virtual reality (VR) has been suggested as a possible tool for teaching spatial reasoning since students are more accurate and complete spatial tasks more quickly in three dimensions. However, no prior work has developed or evaluated a fully-structured VR sp…

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…

Digital Twins for Extended Reality Tourism: User Experience Evaluation Across User Groups
Maximilian Warsinke, Francesco Vona, Tanja Koji\'c, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, Sebastian M\"oller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07740

Digital Twins for Extended Reality Tourism: User Experience Evaluation Across User Groups
This study evaluates the user experience (UX) in extended reality (XR) tourism of two digital twin-based applications: an Augmented Reality Virtual Tour (AR-VT) for enhanced on-site visits and a Virtual Reality Virtual Tour (VR-VT) for remote exploration. Using a quantitative exploratory approach, 84 participants from Spain and Germany, divided into three sample groups, assessed UX, task load, presence, cybersickness, and emotional response through standardized questionnaires. Findings indicate…

Handows: A Palm-Based Interactive Multi-Window Management System in Virtual Reality
Jindu Wang, Ke Zhou, Haoyu Ren, Per Ola Kristensson, Xiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09469

Handows: A Palm-Based Interactive Multi-Window Management System in Virtual Reality
Window management in virtual reality (VR) remains a challenging task due to the spatial complexity and physical demands of current interaction methods. We introduce Handows, a palm-based interface that enables direct manipulation of spatial windows through familiar smartphone-inspired gestures on the user's non-dominant hand. Combining ergonomic layout design with body-centric input and passive haptics, Handows supports four core operations: window selection, closure, positioning, and scaling. …

Investigating the Effect of Prior Exposure and Fidelity on Quality and Realism Perception of VR Digital Twins
Maximilian Warsinke, Maurizio Vergari, Tanja Koji\'c, Daniel Nikulin, Sebastian M\"oller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20106

Investigating the Effect of Prior Exposure and Fidelity on Quality and Realism Perception of VR Digital Twins
This study explores how prior exposure to physical objects influences the quality and realism perception of Digital Twins (DT) with varying levels of fidelity in Virtual Reality (VR). In a mixed experimental design, 24 participants were divided into two equal groups: an exposure group, in which members were shown physical objects before inspecting and rating their replicas in VR, and a control group without prior knowledge. Three objects were presented, each under four fidelity conditions with …

VR Fire safety training application
Ujwal M R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15788

VR Fire safety training application
Fire emergencies can happen without warning and knowing how to respond quickly can save lives Unfortunately traditional fire drills can be disruptive costly and often fail to recreate the pressure of a real emergency This project introduces a Virtual Reality VR Fire Safety Training Application that gives people a safe yet realistic way to practice life saving skills Using a VR headset and motion controllers trainees step into a 3D world where fire hazards smoke and evacuation routes are brought…

At the Speed of the Heart: Evaluating Physiologically-Adaptive Visualizations for Supporting Engagement in Biking Exergaming in Virtual Reality
Oliver Hein, Sandra Wackerl, Changkun Ou, Florian Alt, Francesco Chiossi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13095

At the Speed of the Heart: Evaluating Physiologically-Adaptive Visualizations for Supporting Engagement in Biking Exergaming in Virtual Reality
Many exergames face challenges in keeping users within safe and effective intensity levels during exercise. Meanwhile, although wearable devices continuously collect physiological data, this information is seldom leveraged for real-time adaptation or to encourage user reflection. We designed and evaluated a VR cycling simulator that dynamically adapts based on users' heart rate zones. First, we conducted a user study (N=50) comparing eight visualization designs to enhance engagement and exertio…

Quantifying Locomotion Differences Between Virtual Reality Users With and Without Motor Impairments
Rachel L. Franz, Jacob O. Wobbrock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07987 https://

Quantifying Locomotion Differences Between Virtual Reality Users With and Without Motor Impairments
Today's virtual reality (VR) systems and environments assume that users have typical abilities, which can make VR inaccessible to people with physical impairments. However, there is not yet an understanding of how inaccessible locomotion techniques are, and which interactions make them inaccessible. To this end, we conducted a study in which people with and without upper-body impairments navigated a virtual environment with six locomotion techniques to quantify performance differences among gro…

Adaptique: Multi-objective and Context-aware Online Adaptation of Selection Techniques in Virtual Reality
Chao-Jung Lai, Mauricio Sousa, Tianyu Zhang, Ludwig Sidenmark, Tovi Grossman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08505

Adaptique: Multi-objective and Context-aware Online Adaptation of Selection Techniques in Virtual Reality
Selection is a fundamental task that is challenging in virtual reality due to issues such as distant and small targets, occlusion, and target-dense environments. Previous research has tackled these challenges through various selection techniques, but complicates selection and can be seen as tedious outside of their designed use case. We present Adaptique, an adaptive model that infers and switches to the most optimal selection technique based on user and environmental information. Adaptique con…

ReachVox: Clutter-free Reachability Visualization for Robot Motion Planning in Virtual Reality
Steffen Hauck, Diar Abdlkarim, John Dudley, Per Ola Kristensson, Eyal Ofek, Jens Grubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11426

ReachVox: Clutter-free Reachability Visualization for Robot Motion Planning in Virtual Reality
Human-Robot-Collaboration can enhance workflows by leveraging the mutual strengths of human operators and robots. Planning and understanding robot movements remain major challenges in this domain. This problem is prevalent in dynamic environments that might need constant robot motion path adaptation. In this paper, we investigate whether a minimalistic encoding of the reachability of a point near an object of interest, which we call ReachVox, can aid the collaboration between a remote operator …

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…

Differential Physiological Responses to Proxemic and Facial Threats in Virtual Avatar Interactions
Birgit Nierula, Mustafa Tevfik Lafci, Anna Melnik, Mert Akg\"ul, Farelle Toumaleu Siewe, Sebastian Bosse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10586

Differential Physiological Responses to Proxemic and Facial Threats in Virtual Avatar Interactions
Proxemics, the study of spatial behavior, is fundamental to social interaction and increasingly relevant for virtual reality (VR) applications. While previous research has established that users respond to personal space violations in VR similarly as in real-world settings, phase-specific physiological responses and the modulating effects of facial expressions remain understudied. We investigated physiological and subjective responses to personal space violations by virtual avatars, to understa…

When Avatars Have Personality: Effects on Engagement and Communication in Immersive Medical Training
Julia S. Dollis, Iago A. Brito, Fernanda B. F\"arber, Pedro S. F. B. Ribeiro, Rafael T. Sousa, Arlindo R. Galv\~ao Filho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14132

When Avatars Have Personality: Effects on Engagement and Communication in Immersive Medical Training
While virtual reality (VR) excels at simulating physical environments, its effectiveness for training complex interpersonal skills is limited by a lack of psychologically plausible virtual humans. This is a critical gap in high-stakes domains like medical education, where communication is a core competency. This paper introduces a framework that integrates large language models (LLMs) into immersive VR to create medically coherent virtual patients with distinct, consistent personalities, built …

You Are Not Alone: Designing Body Doubling for ADHD in Virtual Reality
Zinat Ara, Imtiaz Bin Rahim, Puqi Zhou, Liuchuan Yu, Behzad Esmaeili, Lap-Fai Yu, Sungsoo Ray Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12153

You Are Not Alone: Designing Body Doubling for ADHD in Virtual Reality
Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) experience challenges sustaining attention in the workplace. Body doubling, the concept of working alongside another person, has been proposed as a productivity aid for ADHD and other neurodivergent populations (NDs). However, prior work found no conclusive effectiveness and noted NDs' discomfort with social presence. This work investigates body doubling as an ADHD centered productivity strategy in construction tasks. In Study 1, we ex…

Unlocking Mixed Reality for Medical Education: A See-Through Perspective on Head Anatomy
Yuqing Wei, Yupeng Wang, Jiayi Zhao, Yanjun Liu, Huxin Gao, Jiewen Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00352

Unlocking Mixed Reality for Medical Education: A See-Through Perspective on Head Anatomy
Extended reality (XR), encompassing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), is emerging as a transformative platform for medical education. Traditional methods such as textbooks, physical models, and cadaveric dissections often lack interactivity and fail to convey complex spatial relationships effectively. The emerging MR technology addresses these limitations by providing immersive environments that blend virtual elements with real-world contexts. This study pres…

NeuroGaze: A Hybrid EEG and Eye-Tracking Brain-Computer Interface for Hands-Free Interaction in Virtual Reality
Kyle Coutray, Wanyea Barbel, Zack Groth, Joseph J LaViola Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07863

NeuroGaze: A Hybrid EEG and Eye-Tracking Brain-Computer Interface for Hands-Free Interaction in Virtual Reality
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have traditionally been studied in clinical and laboratory contexts, but the rise of consumer-grade devices now allows exploration of their use in daily activities. Virtual reality (VR) provides a particularly relevant domain, where existing input methods often force trade-offs between speed, accuracy, and physical effort. This study introduces NeuroGaze, a hybrid interface combining electroencephalography (EEG) with eye tracking to enable hands-free interaction…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Virtual Reality Alters Perceived Functional Body Size
Xiaoye Michael Wang, Ali Mazalek, Catherine M. Sabiston, Timothy N. Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00824 https://

Virtual Reality Alters Perceived Functional Body Size
Virtual reality (VR) introduces sensory perturbations that may impact perception and action. The current study was designed to investigate how immersive VR presented through a head-mounted display (HMD) affects perceived functional body size using a passable aperture paradigm. Participants (n=60) performed an action task (sidle through apertures) and a perception task (adjust aperture width until passable without contact) in both physical, unmediated reality (UR) and VR. Results revealed signif…

Body Ownership Affects the Processing of Sensorimotor Contingencies in Virtual Reality
Evan G. Center, Matti Pouke, Alessandro Nardi, Lukas Gehrke, Klaus Gramann, Timo Ojala, Steven M. LaValle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01420

Body Ownership Affects the Processing of Sensorimotor Contingencies in Virtual Reality
Presence in virtual reality (VR), the subjective sense of "being there" in a virtual environment, is notoriously difficult to measure. Electroencephalography (EEG) may offer a promising, unobtrusive means of assessing a user's momentary state of presence. Unlike traditional questionnaires, EEG does not interrupt the experience or rely on users' retrospective self-reports, thereby avoiding interference with the very state it aims to capture. Previous research has attempted to quantify presence i…

Pedestrian collision avoidance in hemianopia during natural walking in immersive virtual reality
Jonathan K. Doyon, Sujin Kim, Alex D. Hwang, Jae-Hyun Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04218

Pedestrian collision avoidance in hemianopia during natural walking in immersive virtual reality
Homonymous hemianopia (HH) patients report difficulties in avoiding collisions with other pedestrians. We evaluated pedestrian collision detection and avoidance behaviors in HH patients and healthy controls using a novel virtual reality (VR) walking with pedestrians, which enables natural walking behavior in an empty real-world corridor while viewing an immersive VR environment (shopping mall with colliding and other pedestrians) presented in a head-mounted display (HMD). Critically, it measure…

PunchPulse: A Physically Demanding Virtual Reality Boxing Game Designed with, for and by Blind and Low-Vision Players
Sanchita S. Kamath, Omar Khan, Anurag Choudhary, Jan Meyerhoff-Liang, Soyoung Choi, JooYoung Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02610

PunchPulse: A Physically Demanding Virtual Reality Boxing Game Designed with, for and by Blind and Low-Vision Players
Blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals experience lower levels of physical activity (PA) compared to sighted peers due to a lack of accessible, engaging exercise options. Existing solutions often rely on auditory cues but do not fully integrate rich sensory feedback or support spatial navigation, limiting their effectiveness. This study introduces PunchPulse, a virtual reality (VR) boxing exergame designed to motivate BLV users to reach and sustain moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) …

How LLMs are Shaping the Future of Virtual Reality
S\"ueda \"Ozkaya, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00737 https://

How LLMs are Shaping the Future of Virtual Reality
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Virtual Reality (VR) games marks a paradigm shift in the design of immersive, adaptive, and intelligent digital experiences. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent research at the intersection of LLMs and VR, examining how these models are transforming narrative generation, non-player character (NPC) interactions, accessibility, personalization, and game mastering. Drawing from an analysis of 62 peer reviewed studies published b…

Quantifying the Effect of Thermal Illusions in Virtual Reality
Yannick Weiss, Marlene Eder, Oguzhan Cesur, Steeven Villa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01609 https://

Quantifying the Effect of Thermal Illusions in Virtual Reality
Thermal sensations are central to how we experience the world, yet most virtual and extended reality systems fail to simulate them effectively. While hardware-based thermal displays can provide accurate temperature changes, they are often bulky, power-intensive, and restrict user mobility. Consequently, recent works have explored thermal illusions, perceptual effects that rely on cross-modal interactions, to achieve thermal experiences without physical heating or cooling. While thermal illusion…

Sonify Anything: Towards Context-Aware Sonic Interactions in AR
Laura Sch\"utz, Sasan Matinfar, Ulrich Eck, Daniel Roth, Nassir Navab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01789 https…

Sonify Anything: Towards Context-Aware Sonic Interactions in AR
In Augmented Reality (AR), virtual objects interact with real objects. However, the lack of physicality of virtual objects leads to the absence of natural sonic interactions. When virtual and real objects collide, either no sound or a generic sound is played. Both lead to an incongruent multisensory experience, reducing interaction and object realism. Unlike in Virtual Reality (VR) and games, where predefined scenes and interactions allow for the playback of pre-recorded sound samples, AR requi…

MetaRoundWorm: A Virtual Reality Escape Room Game for Learning the Lifecycle and Immune Response to Parasitic Infections
Xuanru Cheng, Xian Wang, Chi-lok Tai, Lik-Hang Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01367

MetaRoundWorm: A Virtual Reality Escape Room Game for Learning the Lifecycle and Immune Response to Parasitic Infections
Promoting public health is challenging owing to its abstract nature, and individuals may be apprehensive about confronting it. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in using the metaverse and gamification as novel educational techniques to improve learning experiences related to the immune system. Thus, we present MetaRoundWorm, an immersive virtual reality (VR) escape room game designed to enhance the understanding of parasitic infections and host immune responses through interactive…

Immersive Mixed Reality Simulator for CT Scan Preparation: Enhancing Patient Emotional and Physical Readiness
Alex Smith, Priya Patel, Hu Guo, Marco Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03526

Immersive Mixed Reality Simulator for CT Scan Preparation: Enhancing Patient Emotional and Physical Readiness
First-time patients undergoing diagnostic computed tomography (CT) scans often experience significant anxiety and uncertainty, which can negatively impact scan results and patient well-being. We present an immersive mixed reality (MR) simulator designed to prepare adult patients for their first CT scan, aiming to improve both emotional and physical preparedness. In this paper, we review existing methods for reducing scan-related anxiety -- from educational materials to virtual reality exposure …

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…

Large Language Models as Visualization Agents for Immersive Binary Reverse Engineering
Dennis Brown, Samuel Mulder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13413 https://

Large Language Models as Visualization Agents for Immersive Binary Reverse Engineering
Immersive virtual reality (VR) offers affordances that may reduce cognitive complexity in binary reverse engineering (RE), enabling embodied and external cognition to augment the RE process through enhancing memory, hypothesis testing, and visual organization. In prior work, we applied a cognitive systems engineering approach to identify an initial set of affordances and implemented a VR environment to support RE through spatial persistence and interactivity. In this work, we extend that platfo…