The effectiveness of a virtual reality experience is strongly affected by the sense of presence
of the users involved. This article reviews the different definitions of presence and the main …

The increasing availability of head-mounted displays (HMDs) for home use motivates the
study of the possible effects that adopting this new hardware might have on users. Moreover …

As video games are becoming more and more complex and are reaching a broader
audience, there is an increasing interest in procedures to analyze player behavior and the …

It is known that virtual reality (VR) experience may cause cyber sickness. One aspect of VR
is an immersion or otherwise sense of presence, the sense of feeling oneself in a virtual …

The concept of presence, or “being there” is a frequently emphasized factor in immersive
mediated environments. It is often assumed that greater levels of immersive quality elicit …

Originally developed for military flight simulators in the 1990s, the Simulator Sickness
Questionnaire (SSQ) has been widely adopted to quantify sickness elicited by modern …

This paper examines the possibility of experiential learning in a virtual space using head-
mounted-display-based immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies. Experiential learning …

Immersive virtual environments hold unexplored potential to scaffold and stimulate learning
in multiple ways for the purpose of increasing potential learning gains. Yet, the number of …

Recent VR head-mounted displays for consumers feature 3-DOF or 6-DOF head tracking.
However, position tracking (when available) is limited to a small area. Moreover, in small or …

Navigation is the most common interactive task performed in three-dimensional virtual
environments (VEs), but it is also a task that users often find difficult. We investigated how …