Virtual reality (VR) has enjoyed significant popularity in recent years. Where navigation has
been a fundamental appeal of 3D applications for decades, facilitating this in VR has been …

Studying marine plankton is critical to assessing the health of the world's oceans. To sample
these important populations, oceanographers are increasingly using specially engineered in …

We present a novel approach for synthesizing scene-aware virtual reality teleport graphs,
which facilitate navigation in indoor virtual environments by suggesting desirable teleport …

Physical and digital city models are idealized and simplified representations of spatial,
social, economic and cultural structures of a city in a certain region for a specific (historical) …

Three hundred and sixty degree video is becoming more and more popular on the Internet.
By using a Head-Mounted Display, 360-degree video can render a Virtual Reality (VR) …

Object Manipulation is a fundamental interaction in virtual reality (VR). The efficiency and
accuracy of object manipulation are important to provide immersion to users. We propose a …

During free exploration of an unknown virtual scene, users often miss important parts,
leading to incorrect or incomplete environment knowledge and a potential negative impact …

Navigation in multi-scale virtual environments (MSVE) requires the adjustment of the
navigation parameters to ensure optimal navigation experiences at each level of scale. In …

The recent technical and interaction breakthroughs within the virtual reality (VR) sector have
marked a new age. This has also led to a huge advancement of technology in the arena of …

Viewpoint transitions have been shown to improve users' spatial orientation and help them
build a cognitive map when they are navigating an unfamiliar virtual environment. Previous …