Enhancing our lives with immersive virtual reality

M Slater, MV Sanchez-Vives - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Virtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo
head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] …

Neurorehabilitation of spatial memory using virtual environments: a systematic review

JI Montana, C Tuena, S Serino, P Cipresso… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent years, virtual reality (VR) technologies have become widely used in clinical settings
because they offer impressive opportunities for neurorehabilitation of different cognitive …

The benefits of using a walking interface to navigate virtual environments

RA Ruddle, S Lessels - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Walking improves your cognitive map in environments that are large-scale and large in extent

RA Ruddle, E Volkova, HH Bülthoff - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
This study investigated the effect of body-based information (proprioception, etc.) when
participants navigated large-scale virtual marketplaces that were either small (Experiment 1) …

Roles for the subiculum in spatial information processing, memory, motivation and the temporal control of behaviour

SM O'Mara, MV Sanchez-Vives, JR Brotons-Mas… - Progress in Neuro …, 2009 - Elsevier
The subiculum is in a pivotal position governing the output of the hippocampal formation.
Despite this, it is a rather under-explored and sometimes ignored structure. Here, we discuss …

Embodied social presence theory

BE Mennecke, JL Triplett, LM Hassall… - 2010 43rd Hawaii …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss and reflect on the importance of embodiment, context, and spatial proximity as
they pertain to the sense of presence obtained by individuals in virtual environments. We …

A comparative study of desktop, fishtank, and cave systems for the exploration of volume rendered confocal data sets

A Forsberg, M Katzourin, K Wharton… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a participant study that compares biological data exploration tasks using volume
renderings of laser confocal microscopy data across three environments that vary in level of …

Social relations and spatiality in VR-Making spaces meaningful in VRChat

M Rzeszewski, L Evans - Emotion, Space and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Virtual environments of social VR platforms offer a unique space for social interaction. They
can be seen as socio-technological assemblages that foster immersion, embodiment, and …

Tactile modulation of hippocampal place fields

T Gener, L Perez‐Mendez, MV Sanchez‐Vives - Hippocampus, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Neural correlates of spatial representation can be found in the activity of the hippocampal
place cells. These neurons are characterized by firing whenever the animal is located in a …

Is consciousness first in virtual reality?

M Slater, MV Sanchez-Vives - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The prevailing scientific paradigm is that matter is primary and everything, including
consciousness can be derived from the laws governing matter. Although the scientific …