Virtual and Augmented Reality technology has seen rapid advances in the past decade. Previously, entering into a virtual environment often meant that users had to put on a heavy enclosed headset connected to a desktop PC through thick cables or wear 3D glasses and walk into a specially constructed video-theatre like room where the 3D…
AR and VR intersect (and often conflict) with expectations of privacy in public space in ways that will only become more salient over time. There is a varied and sustained engagement with the topic in the AR literature, which act as sophisticated surveillance systems. As Mark Pesce notes – “[f]ar less a new beginning than…
Both augmented reality and virtual reality have increasingly pushed to become key players in the workplace. AR has had a much longer history within the workplace, particularly as an assistive technology in manufacturing industries. There is a body of research in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) that presents experimental cases – with Funk…
Gender in extended reality Kate Euphemia Clark, Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston Gender-based discrimination in mixed reality is a pernicious problem, both at the level of experiencing gameplay, and more deeply at the level of the technology itself. This will only become more pervasive as metaverse products become more entwined in our work and social…