Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Reaching movements in virtual reality depend on the seen avatar arm and not just the acting arm

This study shows that reaching movements in VR are influenced by the visual identity of the arm, not just the controlling arm, with better performance when seeing a right arm.

Uncovering cognitive-motor adaptation to body visualization in immersive technologies through their behavioral and electrophysiological correlates

This study investigates how different body visualization scenarios in immersive technologies affect cognitive-motor performance and neural activity during a dual-task paradigm.

Impact of Driving Dynamic Fluctuations of 6DOF-SVC Model Predictions Across Five Real-World Driving Studies

The paper validates and optimizes a 6DOF-SVC model to predict motion sickness incidence in car passengers across five driving studies, finding a 10% fluctuation in MSI and individual thresholds that are too variable for practical use.

Avatar-Induced Postural Responses during a Virtual Full-Body Illusion

The paper investigates how body-avatar correspondence affects postural responses to avatar posture changes, finding greater postural responses in the Embodiment condition.

Linking continuous behavior to aesthetic enjoyment in a walkable virtual-reality museum tour: effects of agency and a painting-level analysis framework

This study examines how agency and behavioral metrics relate to enjoyment in a VR museum tour, finding no agency effect on enjoyment but a link between gaze engagement and painting liking.

Perceptual Gravity Weighting Is Associated with Cybersickness Susceptibility During Virtual Reality

This study finds that baseline perceptual gravity weighting is associated with reduced cybersickness susceptibility during VR with electrical vestibular stimulation.

ResXR: infrastructure for quality-controlled, reproducible studies of human behavior in Extended Reality

ResXR provides an open-source toolkit for reproducible human behavior studies in Extended Reality, converting immersive experiments into standardized datasets with quality reports.

Embodiment of a functionally altered virtual arm in adults and children

This study examines how altered functionality of a virtual arm affects embodiment in adults and children, finding that extreme enhancements reduce limb ownership in adults but do not improve motor control in children.

Vestibulomotor Weighting Associated with Cybersickness in Virtual Reality

This study links baseline vestibulomotor weighting to cybersickness susceptibility in VR, showing increased reliance on vestibular input and adaptive reweighting during exposure.

SIGHT: an immersive Virtual Reality platform for reinforced learning of optics and functional neuroanatomy of vision

SIGHT is a VR platform that enhances learning of vision optics and neuroanatomy through interactive modules simulating normal and pathological conditions.

Presence Hallucination Induction through Robotically Mediated Somatomotor Conflicts: a pooled analysis of 26 experiments

The paper pools data from 26 experiments to analyze the induction of presence hallucinations using a robotics-based protocol, finding medium effect sizes and associations with schizotypal traits and passivity.

How the characteristics of a virtual environment affects the perception of travel distance through it

This study investigates how virtual environment characteristics affect perceived travel distance through systematic variation of environment structure, naturalism, color, and starfield density.

Trait Absorption Amplifies the Path to Spatial Presence in Highly Immersive Virtual Reality: Attentional Mediation and Dose-Response Effects

This study shows that trait absorption enhances spatial presence in VR through attention allocation, with a dose-response effect observed between absorption levels and attention's impact on presence.

Speaker responses to audience-induced social-evaluative threat: Evidence from scientific presentation tasks in immersive virtual reality

This study examines how speakers respond to supportive vs. unsupportive audiences in virtual reality, finding greater anxiety and physiological arousal in the unsupportive condition and reduced anxiety with VR exposure.

Avatar facial expressions enhance social presence and inter-brain synchronization in virtual reality

This study shows that avatar facial expressions in VR increase social presence and inter-brain synchronization, enhancing collaborative creativity.

The effect of virtual reality modality level of immersion and locomotion on spatial learning and gaze measures

This study examines how different VR modalities affect spatial learning and gaze behavior in humans using eye-tracking and T-maze tasks.

Neurophysiological mechanisms of immersive virtual reality influence segmental motor reflexes

This study investigates how emotionally charged immersive VR affects spinal reflex excitability in healthy adults, finding differential effects on dominant and non-dominant limbs.

Proprioception Impacts Body Perception in Healthy Aging: Insights from a Psychophysical and Computational Approach

This study investigates age-related changes in body perception by comparing multisensory processing in older and young adults, finding that proprioceptive decline contributes to altered body ownership and metric body representation.

ACTION ENHANCEMENT DRIVES THE EMBODIMENT OF A SUPERNUMERARY ROBOTIC DIGIT

This study shows that a robotic supernumerary finger becomes embodied when it enables actions beyond human physiology, as evidenced by increased proprioceptive drift in dorsal mounting.

Contrasting Cognitive, Behavioral, and Physiological Responses to Breathwork vs. Naturalistic Stimuli in Reflective Chamber and VR Headset Environments: Randomized Control Study

This study compares the effects of breathwork and rain stimuli in immersive environments, finding breathwork reduces breath rate more and efficacy is maintained across VR and reflective chamber delivery.

The Effect of Visual Field Occlusion on Visually Induced Motion Sickness

This study investigates how visual field segmentation and masking affect visually induced motion sickness through controlled experiments and finds that segmentation increases susceptibility, thinner masks worsen symptoms, and central masking reduces them.

Taking the perspective of an embodied avatar modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a combined Immersive Virtual Reality and EEG study

This study investigates how perspective-taking during virtual reality affects vicarious pain and pleasure by analyzing EEG data from participants observing virtual stimuli.

Embodiment of an artificial limb in the mouse model

This paper demonstrates that mice exhibit behavioral markers of embodiment for an artificial forelimb using a modified rubber hand illusion protocol.

The Role of Attention in Immersion: The Two-Competitor Model

The paper proposes a two-competitor model to characterize attention in immersion, linking attention modes to affect and providing a framework for measurable assessment of immersive experiences.

Multimodal Mitigations for Cybersickness in Motion Base Simulators

This study evaluates two mitigations for cybersickness in motion-base simulators, finding reduced sickness levels with both a body harness and dynamic field-of-view adjustments.

HandMol: Coupling WebXR, AI and HCI technologies for Immersive, Natural, Collaborative and Inclusive Molecular Modeling

HandMol provides an immersive, collaborative molecular modeling tool using WebXR, AI, and HCI technologies, enabling natural interactions and real-time collaboration without specialized software.

Off the shelf: Investigating transfer of learning using commercially available virtual reality equipment

This study investigates whether motor skill practice using commercially available VR improves real-world performance as effectively as physical practice.

Virtual motivation: The psychological and transfer of learning effects of immersive virtual reality practice

This study compares intrinsic motivation, engagement, and learning transfer between virtual reality and real-world practice of a motor skill, finding greater motivation in VR but similar accuracy improvement.

Digital-robotic markers for hallucinations in Parkinson's disease

This paper develops a digital marker using numerosity estimation in virtual reality to quantify hallucinations in Parkinson's disease patients, showing it is effective in both lab and home settings.

Ouvrai: Opening access to remote VR studies of human behavioral neuroscience

Ouvrai enables remote VR studies by providing an open-source platform with web technologies and integration tools for behavioral neuroscience research.