Virtual Reality

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Virtual reality creates interactive simulated environments using head-mounted displays, motion tracking, spatial audio, and haptic feedback. Researchers improve perception and content with methods such as visual SLAM, Gaussian splatting, multimodal sensing, reinforcement learning, and language-model agents. Applications include social collaboration, robot teleoperation, medical and workplace training, accessibility, and studies of comfort and behavior, evaluated through task performance, user studies, and motion or cybersickness benchmarks. A central challenge is balancing realism and responsive interaction with comfort, privacy, accessibility, and evidence that behavior in VR transfers to the real world.

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  1. Influence of Agent Number and Behavior on Users' Psychological Responses in VR Evacuation Training

    Oct 28, 2026Naoki Matsumura, Kensuke Sugihara, Tomoko YonezawaHuman-AI InteractionVirtual Reality

    Kansai University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

  2. Too Hard, Too Easy, Just Right: Performance-Driven Challenge Adaptation in Virtual Reality Firefighter Training

    Oct 28, 2026Xuan Wang, Jianan Jiang, Rongqian Chen +2Adaptive LearningVirtual Reality

    The Pennsylvania State University State College, PA, USA · The George Washington University Washington, DC, USA

  3. A VR Training System for Robot-Assisted Vascular Intervention with Dual-Mode Control and Model-Based Interaction Response

    Oct 14, 2026Yining Shang, Shuxiang Guo, Sheng Cao +3Virtual RealityRobotic Endovascular Intervention

    Key Laboratory of Convergence Biomedical Engineering System and Healthcare Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. · Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China. · Department of Peripheral Vascular Intervention, Aerospace Center Hospital, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.

  4. A Camera-Native Stereo VR180 Dataset

    Oct 7, 2026Linxuan LuVirtual RealityVideo Compression

    Independent Researcher Singapore

  5. MAV-C: A Framework for the Joint Objective Estimation of Audio-Visual Complexity in Immersive Virtual Environments

    Sep 30, 2026Luca Resti, Amelia Gully, Michael McLoughlin +2Virtual RealityMultimodal Fusion

    Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK · AudioLab, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, UK · Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK

  6. Evaluating the Impact of Adaptive Extended Reality on Human-Robot Interaction Across the Reality-Virtuality Continuum

    Sep 25, 2026Carl Tornberg, Alicia Torck, Lotfi El Hafi +1Human-Robot InteractionVirtual Reality

    Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan · Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1 Place de l’Université, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium · Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

  7. Digital Twin-Driven VR Teleoperation with Multi-View Spatial Perception for Surgical Robots

    Sep 22, 2026Chang Liu, Chenhao Yu, Honghao Zhao +5Virtual RealityDigital Twins

    Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. · Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

  8. Examining the Difference in Human Behavior Between Virtual and Real-World Human-Robot Teaming

    Sep 16, 2026Sean Dallas, Absalat Getachew, Motaz AbuHijleh +4Virtual RealityHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, United States · College of Innovation & Technology, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI 48502, United States · U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), United States

  9. Beyond Scene Description: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Non-visual Access to Virtual Worlds

    Sep 13, 2026Toqeer Ali Syed, Ali Akarma, Adeel Ahmad +1Assistive Technology for Blind and Low-Vision PeopleMulti-Agent Orchestration

    AI Center, Faculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah, Saudi Arabia

  10. Seeing What the Vehicle Sees: Video-Augmented Virtual Reality for Physical Autonomous Vehicles

    Aug 31, 2026Md Tanjemul Islam, Mohammad Shafin, Md Rafiul KabirVirtual RealityAutonomous Driving

    School of Engineering and Technology, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA

  11. MoSign: Challenge-Response Motion-Watermark Authentication for Anonymous Virtual-Reality Users

    Aug 30, 2026Xujun Che, Thomas Carr, Depeng Xu +2Virtual RealityRobust Watermarking

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte · Utah State University

  12. Feelium: A Touchable Blimp Body for Aerial Telepresence

    Aug 29, 2026George Xi Wang, Henghao Li, Shan Lin +3Robot TeleoperationVirtual Reality

    Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, United States · New York University Brooklyn, New York, United States · School of Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Shenzhen, Guangdong, China +2

  13. Toward Postural State Classification in Immersive VR with Multimodal Data and Explainability Analysis

    Aug 28, 2026Nipa Anjum, Md Irfan Pavel, Robert Gonzalez +4Virtual RealityMultimodal Classification

    University of Texas at San Antonio · Kennesaw State University

  14. Remote Human-Robot Interaction In Greenhouses via Virtual Reality: How Plant Canopy Structure Affects Leaf Disease and Soil Moisture Inspection

    Aug 27, 2026Daniel Udekwe, Hasan SeyyedhasaniRobotic InspectionHuman-Robot Interaction

    School of Plant and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA, USA

  15. ExploreAI: Agentic Exploration Knowledge Bases for Reproducible Observable-Regression Testing of Black-Box VR and 3D Applications

    Aug 21, 2026Jiajie Wang, Kebin Peng, Wei Wang +3Automated Software TestingLLM Agents

    The University of Arizona · East Carolina University · The University of Texas at San Antonio +1

  16. Computational Measurement of Team-Process Phase Dynamics in Collaborative Virtual Reality

    Aug 19, 2026Qing Huang, Jianing Zhang, Pooja PolVirtual RealityChange-Point Detection

    Data Science und Autonome Systeme Technologietransferzentrum (TTZ), 86899 Landsberg am Lech, Germany

  17. Ocular Verification for Virtual Reality

    Jul 22, 2026Husanpreet Singh, Robert Tran, Ayushree Kharel +1Biometric IdentificationVirtual Reality

    University of Wyoming, USA · San Diego State University, USA

  18. Validating Virtual Reality for Studying Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction in Socially Aware Robot Navigation

    Jul 10, 2026Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid AlamiVirtual RealitySocial Robot Navigation

    LAAS-CNRS, Universite de Toulouse, France · Inria Nancy, France

  19. AnythingReality: Robust Online Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Open-Vocabulary VR Scene Exploration

    Jul 10, 2026Timofei Kozlov, Dmitrii Maliukov, Andrey Marchenko +23D Gaussian SplattingStreaming 3D Reconstruction

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation · NLP Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation

  20. CoGen3D: An Agentic Human-AI Co-Design Pipeline for 3D Asset Generation for Virtual Reality

    Jul 4, 2026Weiwei Jiang, Wanyu He, Zheyu Tan +53D Asset GenerationVirtual Reality

    Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China · Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan · The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia +3

  21. DRL-Driven Edge-Aware Utility Optimization for Multi-Slice 6G Networks

    May 21, 2026Khaled M. Naguib, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Mahmoud M. Elmessalawy +26G NetworksEdge Computing

    CCAS Department, School of Engineering, New Giza University (NGU), Cairo, Egypt · Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada · Department of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

  22. Quantifying Full-Body Immersion

    May 21, 2026Alihan Bakir, Ekrem Yüksel, Fabio Zuliani +3Modular RoboticsVirtual Reality

    Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, EPFL, MED 1 2313 Building MED Station 9, Lausanne, 1015, Vaud, Switzerland.

  23. PanoWorld: A Generative Spatial World Model for Consistent Whole-House Panorama Synthesis

    May 18, 2026Jinrang Jia, Zhenjia Li, Yijiang Hu +1World ModelsImage Generation

    Ke Holdings Inc. Beijing, China

  24. ThermalTap: Passive Application Fingerprinting in VR Headsets via Thermal Side Channels

    May 13, 2026Mahsin Bin Akram, A H M Nazmus Sakib, OFM Riaz Rahman Aranya +3Virtual Reality

    University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas, USA

  25. Closing the Loop: Unified 3D Scene Generation and Immersive Interaction via LLM-RL Coupling

    May 7, 2026Anh H. Vo, Sungyo Lee, Phil-Joong Kim +2Virtual RealityLLM-Guided RL

    Department of Computer Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  26. Privatar: Scalable Privacy-preserving Multi-user VR via Secure Offloading

    Apr 19, 2026Jianming Tong, Hanshen Xiao, Krishna Kumar Nair +53D ReconstructionVirtual Reality

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · Google, Mountain View, California, USA +4

  27. Lightweight Cybersickness Detection based on User-Specific Eye and Head Tracking Data in Virtual Reality

    Apr 18, 2026Yijun Wang, Mihai Bâce, Maria Torres VegaVirtual Reality

    KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

  28. Realizing Immersive Volumetric Video: A Multimodal Framework for 6-DoF VR Engagement

    Apr 10, 2026Zhengxian Yang, Shengqi Wang, Shi Pan +8Virtual RealityDynamic Scene Reconstruction

    Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. · the Migu Beijing Research Institute, Beijing, China +3

  29. Bridging the Gap between Micro-scale Traffic Simulation and 4D Digital Cityscapes

    Apr 9, 2026Longxiang Jiao, Lukas Hofmann, Yiru Yang +2Virtual RealityDigital Twins

    ETH Zurich · University of Zurich

  30. A Multi-View 3D Telepresence System for XR Robot Teleoperation

    Apr 4, 2026Enes Ulas Dincer, Manuel Zaremski, Alexandra Nick +3Robot TeleoperationVirtual Reality

    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany · Institute of Human and Industrial Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany