Tools and platforms that enable remote communication and collaboration provide a strong
contribution to societal challenges. Virtual meetings and conferencing, in particular, can help …

Medical education is transforming thanks to medical schools adopting innovations to
prepare new clinicians, paramedics as well as nurses for emerging models of care. In …

We present a VR field trip framework, Kvasir-VR, and assess its two approaches to teacher-
guided content. In one approach, networked student groups are guided by a live teacher …

With recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) hardware,
many new immersive Extended Reality (XR) applications and services arose. One challenge …

Recent developments in key technologies like 5G, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
and Tactile Internet result in new possibilities for communication. Particularly, these key …

We present a pilot study of four teacher avatars for an educational virtual field trip. The
avatars consist of a depth-video-based mesh of a real person, a game-style human model, a …

In a guided virtual field trip, students often need to pay attention to the correct objects in a 3D
scene. Distractions or misunderstandings of a virtual agent's spatial guidance may cause …

Video conference applications that allow group communication through video and audio
over distance have become commonplace and mainstream. To scale the number of …

This demo presents an approach to networked educational virtual reality for virtual field trips
and guided exploration. It shows an asymmetric collaborative interface in which a remote …

Distractions can cause students to miss out on critical information in educational Virtual
Reality (VR) environments. Our work uses generalized features (angular velocities …