Top Research Papers on Virtual Reality

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies have revolutionized learning approaches through immersive digital experience, interactive environment, simulation and engagement. Yet, these technologies are in developing stage and require massive investment and mass customization to meet the high demand in education. This comprehensive review aims to frame AR and VR development in education during the last twelve years. By adopting text mining and topic analysis approaches, a total of 1536 articles were selected for further analysis. These articles were selected from Scopus databas...

Using the social psychology theory of elaboration likelihood model (ELM), we present a conceptual model of persuading consumer attitudes through virtual and augmented reality advertisements. We begin this paper with a systematic literature review that assesses a number of theoretical and empirical papers that utilize ELM for virtual reality and augmented reality advertisements. The second section presents research prepositions that facilitate the investigation of consumer attitude persuasion through virtual reality and augmented reality advertisements. The authors identified six research prepo...

The analysis shows that AR and VR are the solutions for teachers and students as a medium in the teaching and learning process, and there are several barriers to implementing AR and VR in educational institutions and some considerations.

The VR-EAL appears as an effective neuropsychological tool for the assessment of everyday cognitive functions, which has enhanced ecological validity, a highly pleasant testing experience, and does not induce cybersickness.

Based on the concepts of the Reality-Virtuality (RV) continuum and the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework, this study investigated differences between AR and VR in their effects on vividness/interactivity, a sense of presence, users' sensory brand app experience, attitude, and behavioral intention. For AR, participants downloaded an app to mobile phones. For VR, participants downloaded a VR app to smartphones attached to a Google Cardboard VR headset. Vividness and interactivity directly (or indirectly) impacted a sense of presence, sensory brand app experience, attitude towards techno...

The CSQ-VR is a valid assessment of cybersickness with superior psychometric properties to SSQ and VRSQ, and it benefits from examining pupil size, a biomarker of cybsickness.

Bibliometric research shows that animation, 3D graphics, and sound may replace more traditional ways of schooling in the future and Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) harness current technology to put digital content in the actual world, enabling consumers to have a more meaningful interaction with it on desktop or hand-held devices.

A systematic review of AR/VR technologies for education and training in the AEC industry indicates that there are some limitations in the applications and insights into future trends are provided.

Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Mixed reality, Extended reality, Immersive systems

This review suggests that using VR to assist mindfulness training is an effective and innovative way to improve mental health conditions within the adult population.

The results obtained show that in the context of changes to elements of a building’s spatial environment, human work efficiency is most related to the β rhythms at several test points and the right temporal lobe region of the brain, which provides a more accurate set of reference information for building space design based on occupant satisfaction and physical and mental health.

The concept of second chance tourism and the role of innovative preservation methods such as virtual and mixed reality are introduced and the collation of data will provide indications on site preservation and impact mitigation via a second chance to reduce pressure on inherently fragile destinations.

The optical requirements in near-eye displays poised by the human visual system are analyzed and compared against the specifications of state-of-the-art devices and potential solutions to address these challenges are presented case by case.

Alternative forms of intervention are investigated, such as video games, with virtual or augmented reality environments that aim to improve the quality of life of these children.

This paper examines the classification of modern VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) and conducts a comparative analysis on an example of several relevant for today headsets, showing that overall HTC Vive Pro has the best qualities among the other devices.

It is suggested that VR can and probably will fundamentally change the way in which tourists’ experiences and requirements are managed entirely.

Current and emerging technologies and applications in surgery, their benefits and challenges around immersion, spatial awareness and cognition, and their reported and projected use in learning environments, procedure planning and perioperative contexts and in the surgical theatre are explored.

The capability of the VR system to make users feel physically present in the virtual environment contributes significantly to the development of positive emotions and enjoyment, which can contribute positively to the user’s consumer behaviour towards the touristic products and services.

The system requirements based on visual and wearable comfort are defined and various VR and AR display architectures are analyzed and evaluated case by case, including some of the latest research progress and future perspectives.

The results indicate that VR is a prevalent tool in the research landscape of medical education technologies, with a positive trend toward enhancing educational outcomes, yet calls for more rigorous studies to establish definitive evidence of their efficacy.

It is argued that Plausibility is the most interesting and complex illusion to understand and is worthy of significant more research.

It is supported that VR sickness produces unequal effects across multiple individual differences, and these effects appear resilient across applications of VR programs, and further research is needed to develop theory and identify explanatory mechanisms that detail these relationships.

It is recommended that the implementation of VR entails the entire process, from identifying barriers to developing and employing a coherent, multi-level implementation intervention with suitable strategies, which in turn might result in increased uptake and use of VR technologies that are of added value for healthcare practice.

It is found that the use of Cardboard goggles did not produce a significantly greater sense of presence in the experience of advertorial viewers, which supports the hypothesis that presence plays a mediating role in the relationship between theUse of VR in tourism advertising and consumer response.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an extraordinary global situation, and all countries have adopted their own strategies to diminish and eliminate the spread of the virus. All measures are in line with the recommendations provided by the World Health Organization. Scientific societies, such as the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology and American Society for Reproductive Medicine, have provided recommendations and guidance to overcome and flatten the growing curve of infection in patients who undergo IVF treatments. Although there is as yet no evidence that the virus causing COVID-19 ...

The results imply that VR technology could have an effective restorative function during a school or work day when there is no access to highly restorative natural environments.

To what extent VR virtual environments, videos, games, tasks, avatar, images, and 360-degree panoramas can elicit emotions is evaluated and the VR's potential to evoke emotions effectively and naturally by generating motivational and empathy mechanisms makes it an ecologically valid paradigm to study emotions.

In the era of ‘metaverse’, virtual environments are gaining popularity among new multimedia contents and are also recognized as a valuable means to deliver emotional content. This is favoured by cost reduction, availability and acceptance by end-users of virtual reality technology. Creating effective virtual environments can be achieved by exploiting several opportunities: creating artificial worlds able to generate different stories, mixing sensory cues, and making the whole interactive. The design space for creating emotional virtual environments is ample, and no clear idea of how to integra...

A review of ethical issues in virtual and augmented reality. 

The presented XR platforms will be useful for biomedical education, medical training, surgical guidance, and molecular data visualization to enhance trainees’ and students’ learning, medical operation accuracy, and the comprehensibility of complex biological systems.

The current and future role of VR and AR in different fields within cardiology, its challenges, and perspectives are summarized.

The CSWC-SVM algorithm constructed in this study performs well in response to the attack of the industrial control system in the virtual reality simulation environment, which provides practical significance for the application of virtual reality in industrial monitoring.

An accessible understanding of why virtual reality therapy is important for future practice is provided, given its potential to provide clinically relevant information associated with the assessment and treatment of people suffering from mental illness.

This scoping review article explores the application of telepresence (TPr), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) to clinical care and found 85 papers directly relevant to the concepts.

Surgical training is changing: AR and VR will become mainstays of future training efforts, and more evidence is needed to determine which training technology translates to improved clinical performance.

Current advances in immersive VR-based therapies for mental disorders are reviewed, but further well-designed studies are needed that use novel techniques and investigate efficacy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of VR interventions compared with current treatments.

This review discusses how emerging holographic optical elements and lithography-based devices are enhancing the performances of augmented reality and virtual reality displays with glasses-like form factor and casts a perspective on potential developments and research directions of these photonic devices for future AR and VR displays.

This survey explores Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality within social learning spaces, such as classrooms and museums, while also extending into relevant social interaction concepts found within more reality-based and social immersive media frameworks.

Various applications are introduced, such as static holographic optical components and dynamic holographic display devices, providing a comprehensive overview of holographic techniques that are applied to AR and VR near-eye displays.

A meta-analysis of the presently available, empirical findings on transfer of training from virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed reality (MR) and extended reality (XR)-based training found that extended realities are as effective of a training mechanism as the commonly accepted methods.