Commercial social VR applications represent a diverse and evolving ecology with
competing models of what it means to be social in VR. Drawing from expert interviews, this …

We interviewed VR users (n= 25) about their experiences with harassment, abuse, and
discomfort in social YR. We find that users' definitions ofonline harassment'are subjective …

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

After the outbreak of COVID-19, creating believable social virtual environments to substitute
face-to-face interactions became vital. Social presence is essential for creating realistic and …

The perception and experience of avatars has been critical to understand the social
dynamics in virtual environments, online gaming, and collaborative systems. How would …

Social VR refers to 3D virtual spaces where multiple users can interact with one another
through VR head-mounted displays. These novel digital spaces are dramatically …

The boom of commercial social virtual reality (VR) platforms in recent years has signaled the
growth and wide-spread adoption of consumer VR. Social VR platforms draw aspects from …

The increasingly popular social virtual reality (VR) is dramatically transforming how people
meet, interact, and socialize online. These immersive digital spaces blend aspects of the …

COVID underscores the potential of VR meeting tools to compensate for lack of embodied
communication in applications like Zoom. But both research and commercial VR meeting …

We present online survey results on social virtual reality (social VR) users' activities and
usage motives. Based on content analysis of users' free-text responses, we found that most …