The future of interpersonal skills development: Immersive virtual reality training with virtual humans

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Schmid Mast ◽  
Emmanuelle P. Kleinlogel ◽  
Benjamin Tur ◽  
Manuel Bachmann
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Immersive Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Reality Training ◽  
Virtual Humans ◽  
The Future

Toward the Future of Surgery: An Immersive, Virtual-Reality-Based Endoscopic Prototype

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Danilo Avola ◽  
Roberto Caronna ◽  
Luigi Cinque ◽  
Gian Luca Foresti ◽  
Marco Raoul Marini
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Immersive Virtual Reality ◽  
The Future

The Future of Horror

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Clasen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Immersive Virtual Reality ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Sense Of Presence ◽  
The Future ◽  
Live Action

This chapter discusses recent and future developments in horror entertainment. It argues that future horror media will give consumers access to a wider range of experiences, some of which are more immersive and much more emotionally powerful than those offered by traditional horror media. The chapter analyzes horror videogames such as Until Dawn (2015), as well as so-called survival horror games such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010), which foster immersion through interaction, and immersive virtual reality, which increases the sense of presence in a frightening computer-generated world. The chapter also analyzes haunted attractions and live-action horror experiences which situate consumers as protagonists in horror stories that unfold around them. Finally, the chapter argues that horror research needs to engage more actively with science, in theory as well as method.

scholarly journals Transient visual perturbations boost short-term balance learning in virtual reality by modulating electrocortical activity

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 1998-2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Peterson ◽  
Estefania Rios ◽  
Daniel P. Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Spectral Power ◽  
Cognitive Change ◽  
Motor Training ◽  
Immersive Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Reality Training ◽  
Balance Performance ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Electrocortical Activity

Immersive virtual reality can expose humans to novel training and sensory environments, but motor training with virtual reality has not been able to improve motor performance as much as motor training in real-world conditions. An advantage of immersive virtual reality that has not been fully leveraged is that it can introduce transient visual perturbations on top of the visual environment being displayed. The goal of this study was to determine whether transient visual perturbations introduced in immersive virtual reality modify electrocortical activity and behavioral outcomes in human subjects practicing a novel balancing task during walking. We studied three groups of healthy young adults (5 male and 5 female for each) while they learned a balance beam walking task for 30 min under different conditions. Two groups trained while wearing a virtual reality headset, and one of those groups also had half-second visual rotation perturbations lasting ~10% of the training time. The third group trained without virtual reality. We recorded high-density electroencephalography (EEG) and movement kinematics. We hypothesized that virtual reality training with perturbations would increase electrocortical activity and improve balance performance compared with virtual reality training without perturbations. Our results confirmed the hypothesis. Brief visual perturbations induced increased theta spectral power and decreased alpha spectral power in parietal and occipital regions and improved balance performance in posttesting. Our findings indicate that transient visual perturbations during immersive virtual reality training can boost short-term motor learning by inducing a cognitive change, minimizing the negative effects of virtual reality on motor training. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We found that transient visual perturbations in virtual reality during balance training can boost short-term motor learning by inducing a cognitive change, overcoming the negative effects of immersive virtual reality. As a result, subjects training in immersive virtual reality with visual perturbations have equivalent performance improvement as training in real-world conditions. Visual perturbations elicited cortical responses in occipital and parietal regions and may have improved the brain’s ability to adapt to variations in sensory input.

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