Print Email Facebook Twitter Social virtual reality (VR) applications and user experiences Title Social virtual reality (VR) applications and user experiences Author Li, Jie (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI); EPAM Systems, Hoofddorp) Cesar, Pablo (TU Delft Multimedia Computing; Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)) Date 2023 Abstract Virtual reality (VR) is the experience in a simulated interactive virtual space. It provides synthetic sensory feedback to users' actions that can physically and mentally immerse the users. Social VR is one type of VR system that allows multiple users to join a collaborative virtual environment and communicate with each other, usually by means of visual and audio cues. The virtual space can be a computer-generated 3D scene or a 360° scene captured by an omnidirectional camera. Each user is represented as a computer-generated avatar or using a virtual representation based on live capture. Social VR has shown to be a promising solution to enrich remote communication experiences in the face of increasing pressures to reduce travel and work remotely. In this chapter, we will showcase the design, implementation, and real-world deployment of a series of social VR applications, which are developed for immersive interactive communication and collaboration for multiple domains (e.g., healthcare, cultural heritage). Moreover, we discuss the experimental protocols for evaluating user experiences in this new medium. Subject immersive and interactive communicationpersonalized remote healthcaresocial virtual realityuser experience evaluationvolumetric videos To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:185a8438-a4a8-492f-96d9-66a16911c9aa DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-32-391755-1.00028-6 Publisher Elsevier Embargo date 2023-07-27 ISBN 978-0-32-398623-6 Source Immersive Video Technologies Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2023 Jie Li, Pablo Cesar Files PDF 3_s2.0_B97803239175510002 ... 6_main.pdf 5.61 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:185a8438-a4a8-492f-96d9-66a16911c9aa/datastream/OBJ/view