Design Considerations for Supporting Mindfulness in Virtual Reality

Supporting complexity in distributed virtual reality systems

Future applications of virtual reality will require increasingly complicated virtual worlds to yield the richness and functionality demanded by increasing numbers of users. This document introduces some qualitative measures of complexity which may be used to asses virtual reality systems. A number of current virtual reality systems are considered with regard to the facilities and complexity whi...

VRTest: a Virtual Reality sysTEm for tranSporTation Design VRTest: a Virtual Reality sysTEm for tranSporTation design

Meditation experts try Virtual Reality Mindfulness: A pilot study evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of Virtual Reality to facilitate mindfulness practice in people attending a Mindfulness conference.

Regular mindfulness practice benefits people both mentally and physically, but many populations who could benefit do not practice mindfulness. Virtual Reality (VR) is a new technology that helps capture participants' attention and gives users the illusion of "being there" in the 3D computer generated environment, facilitating sense of presence. By limiting distractions from the real world, incr...

Virtual Bodystorming: Utilizing Virtual Reality for Prototyping in Service Design

The paper describes our ongoing work on a new prototyping method for service design, Virtual Bodystorming. Virtual Bodystorming utilizes Virtual Reality (VR) and enables the user to role-play the service scenario in a fully immersive and collaborative VR environment. In this environment, various service-related areas and objects can be recreated with 3D graphics, while distant service users, pr...

Virtual Reality for Enhanced Urban Design

The application of virtual reality to cultural heritage, environment, and landscape planning is extremely useful to experiment various scenarios which could not be necessarily realised in the real world; both for educational and research purposes. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how 3D representations can be utilised as a valid support for urban planners and designers in order to verify...