A hyper-connected digital universe referred to as the 'metaverse'bears the promise of
fundamentally changing how consumers, brands, and firms will transact and interact in a …

Nature exposure is known to promote physical and mental health. However, actual nature
exposure may be difficult to achieve for the population of people with physical disabilities or …

Although human-built environment interaction has been studied extensively, the scope has
been mostly limited to a single sensory domain instead of multimodal conditions. This …

Virtual reality (VR) technologies have been used successfully in tourism marketing. While
most conventional VR applications are of an audiovisual nature, the constant evolution of …

Virtual reality (VR) is rapidly growing, with the potential to change the way we create and
consume content. In VR, users integrate multimodal sensory information they receive to …

Bidirectional haptic communication devices accelerate the revolution of virtual/augmented
reality and flexible/wearable electronics. As an emerging kind of flexible piezoelectric …

The adoption of immersive virtual experiences (IVEs) opened new research lines where the
impact of realism is being studied, allowing developers to focus resources on realism factors …

Virtual reality (VR) is used in different application fields like health, tourism, or training. Most
VR applications for these fields have been built from the ground up without any authoring …

Over the past two decades, the Internet-of-things (IoT) has become a transformative concept,
and as we approach 2030, a new paradigm known as the Internet of senses (IoS) is …

Hands are the most important tool to interact with virtual environments, and they should be
available to perform the most critical tasks. For example, a surgeon in VR should keep …