
Pixel Theory
Luke Heemsbergen
Layering of theĀ virtualĀ on to theĀ realĀ is usually how Augmented Reality is described and explained, but layering is a strange metaphor to understand what is at stake when considering the physical-digital environments…

The Death of the Metaverse?
Leighton Evans
RIP Metaverse. Not my headline, but the leading line of an article inĀ Business InsiderĀ in May 2023. As I write this at the end of May, I can look back on a month of relentless articles informing us of the death of the metaverse…

From Calming Spaces to Superpowered Avatars: Exploring how AR and VR could enhance health and well-being by recreating spatial, social, and feedback reality
Panote Siriaraya
Virtual and Augmented Reality…
The re-emergence of the metaverse: An interview with Leighton Evans
Marcus Carter
Marcus: Thank you so much for joining us. Could you give us a bit of a brief introduction to your research on VR? What have you been interested in in the past and what are you working on now?
Leighton: My interest in VR goes back. Personally, a hell of a long way. I remember reading first about VR in about 91, maybe something like that, as a 12-year-old kid playing Sega games and buying console magazines and being promised ā in this kind of really short timeline…


The identity, emotion, and gaze behind Apples’s Vision Pro
Chris Chesher
When AppleĀ introduced their Vision ProĀ it represented another iteration of the immersive head-mounted display dating back to Ivan Sutherlandās experiments in the 1960s, but with a difference…

“My VR does not acknowledge me as a person”: Is the metaverse leaving disabled users behind?
Ben Egliston, Kate Euphemia Clark, and Marcus Carter
Last month,Ā Apple revealed its long-teased Vision Pro headset, a device that uses augmented reality technology…

The ambivalence of beauty (filters) in AR: Gender exploration and selfie culture
Kiah Hawker
While using apps like TikTok or Instagram, if you decide to include an augmented reality (AR) filter (or lens) onto your image the top filters that come up, algorithmically targe