Cross-Reality Re-Rendering: Manipulating between Digital and Physical Realities

The advent of personalized reality has arrived. Rapid development in AR/MR/VR enables users to augment or diminish their perception of the physical world. Robust tooling for digital interface modification enables users to change how their software operates. As digital realities become an increasingly-impactful aspect of human lives, we investigate the design of a system that enables users to manipulate the perception of both their physical realities and digital realities. Users can inspect their view history from either reality, and generate interventions that can be interoperably rendered cross-reality in real-time. Personalized interventions can be generated with mask, text, and model hooks. Collaboration between users scales the availability of interventions. We verify our implementation against our design requirements with cognitive walkthroughs, personas, and scalability tests.Comment: updated. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2204.0373

Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct. Recommendations for Good Scientific Practice and the Consumers of VR-Technology

The goal of this article is to present a first list of ethical concerns that may arise from research and personal use of virtual reality (VR) and related technology, and to offer concrete recommendations for minimizing those risks. Many of the recommendations call for focused research initiatives. In the first part of the article, we discuss the relevant evidence from psychology that motivates our concerns. In Section “Plasticity in the Human Mind,” we cover some of the main results suggesting that one’s environment can influence one’s psychological states, as well as recent work on inducing illusions of embodiment. Then, in Section “Illusions of Embodiment and Their Lasting Effect,” we go on to discuss recent evidence indicating that immersion in VR can have psychological effects that last after leaving the virtual environment. In the second part of the article, we turn to the risks and recommendations. We begin, in Section “The Research Ethics of VR,” with the research ethics of VR, covering six main topics: the limits of experimental environments, informed consent, clinical risks, dual-use, online research, and a general point about the limitations of a code of conduct for research. Then, in Section “Risks for Individuals and Society,” we turn to the risks of VR for the general public, covering four main topics: long-term immersion, neglect of the social and physical environment, risky content, and privacy. We offer concrete recommendations for each of these 10 topics, summarized in Table 1

Potential applications for virtual and augmented reality technologies in sensory science

peer-reviewedSensory science has advanced significantly in the past decade and is quickly evolving to become a key tool for predicting food product success in the marketplace. Increasingly, sensory data techniques are moving towards more dynamic aspects of sensory perception, taking account of the various stages of user-product interactions. Recent technological advancements in virtual reality and augmented reality have unlocked the potential for new immersive and interactive systems which could be applied as powerful tools for capturing and deciphering the complexities of human sensory perception. This paper reviews recent advancements in virtual and augmented reality technologies and identifies and explores their potential application within the field of sensory science. The paper also considers the possible benefits for the food industry as well as key challenges posed for widespread adoption. The findings indicate that these technologies have the potential to alter the research landscape in sensory science by facilitating promising innovations in five principal areas: consumption context, biometrics, food structure and texture, sensory marketing and augmenting sensory perception. Although the advent of augmented and virtual reality in sensory science offers new exciting developments, the exploitation of these technologies is in its infancy and future research will understand how they can be fully integrated with food and human responses. Industrial relevance: The need for sensory evaluation within the food industry is becoming increasingly complex as companies continuously compete for consumer product acceptance in today's highly innovative and global food environment. Recent technological developments in virtual and augmented reality offer the food industry new opportunities for generating more reliable insights into consumer sensory perceptions of food and beverages, contributing to the design and development of new products with optimised consumer benefits. These technologies also hold significant potential for improving the predictive validity of newly launched products within the marketplace

Re-embodied fear : Designing deep learning methods in virtual reality to unravel emotional body loops

This thesis is an experimental research that theoretically examines the ontological nature of virtual reality (VR) and its possible implications to be used in designing new emotional learning environments and experiences. The focus is set on fear as an emotion that physically and mentally manifests itself as a specific phobia. The applications of using virtual reality as a psychological tool for treating negative emotions are questioned by making apparent the unanswered questions about our emotions and perception taking abilities. Through different case studies related to the manipulations of our sense of embodiment in VR, the plasticity of our mind and body is researched and applied into emotion theories. The thesis examines how VR could be harnessed to reveal the phenomenal ‘body loops’ with the help of sensor technology (HRV) and ultimately, be designed to unravel the maladaptive loops. Hypothetically, it considers taking advantage of the virtual space design and our sense of embodiment by literally creating new perspectives for experiencing through virtual body manipulations. Through problematization and the ideology of ontological design, it is suggested that we should adapt more radical design in VR to overcome the existing scientific paradigms about emotional learning

Vignetwork: An Exquisite Corpse Network of Short Films

Vignetwork (www.Vignetwork.com) is the name for an online system of interconnected short films that comes from the combination of the terms vignette and network. By developing Vignetwork as an experiment in narrative structure, it is possible to analyze what a hypertext is and what it means as a tool, environment, and model for understanding the world. By comparing it to various other films, projects, and ideas, Vignetwork emerges as a parable for how individuals define themselves in a shared, crowded world