The current second wave of Virtual Reality (VR) initiated after the advent Oculus Rift in 2012 has led to millions head-mounted displays (HMDs) being sold worldwide and a vast varied amount content produced. In addition, as it happened with VR’s first few decades ago, an exciting body research emerged. During both such waves, much described pivotal terminology ambiguously, which among other thi...

This study sought to investigate if virtual reality technology enhances the psychological benefits of aerobic exercise in a laboratory setting. In this study, 88 university faculty and staff (44 females, 44 males) were randomly assigned to one of three 30-min conditions including: (1) bicycling at a moderate intensity (60–70% maximum heart rate) on a stationary bicycle, (2) playing a virtual re...

This paper proposes an interactive bike simulator of 2-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) mechanisms with dynamic platform driven by changing cable length and its application to virtual reality for the rider in the virtual environments. The bike motion equations and road conditions in virtual bike driving can be calculated and analyzed by using numerical methods and software of the virtual reality. We al...

Homogenous Virtual Environments evolved into Mixed Environments thanks to recent Augmented Reality techniques. We have done research on novel interaction techniques in virtual environments exploiting the usage of 3D virtual space. We will briefly present our Augmented Reality set-up for mixed reality experiments and we will analyze two distinct mixed environment case studies, and present two ne...

This report provides a short survey of the field of virtual reality, highlighting application domains, technological requirements, and currently available solutions. The report is organized as follows: section 1 presents the background and motivation of virtual environment research and identifies typical application domain, section 2 discusses the characteristics a virtual reality system must h...

Virtual reality is becoming one of the seamless technology which can be used to treat several psychological problems such as anxiety disorders. With the advancement of technology virtual reality is becoming available to ordinary practitioners to carry out non-clinical therapies. An effective virtual reality system provides the user with total immersion and becomes a part of the virtual world. T...

This research investigates the design of a low-cost 3D spatial interaction approach using the Wii Remote for immersive Head-Mounted Display (HMD) virtual reality. Current virtual reality applications that incorporate the Wii Remote are either desktop virtual reality applications or systems that use large screen displays. However, the requirements for an HMD virtual reality system differ from su...