Frontiers in Virtual Reality Online Seminar Series 2020 – “Impossible outside Virtual Reality”

In this online seminar, Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco talks about “Impossible outside Virtual Reality”. A collection of her work on avatars, perception and behaviour that are very much aiming at finding the limits of this new technology: with new ways to measure VR and to improve its adoption and understanding. Among other things she frames her research also in the context of studies that found the new theories of the Uncanny Valley of Haptics or the Self-Avatar Follower effect, and previously found enfacement and embodiment illusions. She also introduces free tools for the community to use and continue the research on the field with an embodiment questionnaire and the Microsoft Rocketbox library of avatars.

Since there was some quality drop in the video, probably due to a combination of network issues and a high resolution screen, the presentation is available here through pdf. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/06/2020-Frontiers-Seminar.pdf

Please refer to a previous talk by Dr. Eyal Ofek, in the same virtual seminar series that was presented by one of my close collaborators here at Microsoft Research. In that presentation you can find most of our work on another big area of interest that is Haptics. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/eyal-ofek-haptics-for-vr/

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Launched in December 2019, Frontiers in Virtual Reality is one of Frontiers’ newest journals, offering a dedicated open access platform for the latest work in the field of Virtual Reality.

The Editorial board of Frontiers in Virtual Reality presented a series of virtual seminars that took place over the months of the pandemic in 2020. These seminars were aimed at students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of virtual and augmented reality and its applications. Interested members of the public were also welcome.