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Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Number of Papers published in non peer-reviewed journals: Final Report: Immersive Virtual Reality with Applications to Tele-Operation and Training Report Title The proposed project aims to develop a fundamental framework for establishing an immersive virtual reality environment for robust and scalable human robotics interaction in a cooperative intelligent architecture at the University of Houston-Victoria, a designated Hispanic Serving Institution of higher education. The requested equipment and instrumentation will be integrated into our currently established motion capture facility and will serve as a complement system to augment our currently active research and educational capabilities in animation, virtual reality, and computer vision. Furthermore, the resulting integration provides new and exciting avenues of research in multi-agent virtual reality and robotics as well as stimulating educational tools to engage more under-represented students in STEM Fields. The population of graduate and undergraduate students within the Digital Gaming and Simulation, Computer Science programs will actively collaborate with the PI and Co-PIs to integrate the equipment into our current facilities and to engage in several research projects to establish the proposed computational architecture. These projects aim to study, assess, and reconfigure suitable visualization and HCI tools for the proposed integrated virtual reality environment for the human-robotics interactions. (a) Papers published in peer-reviewed journals (N/A for none) Enter List of papers submitted or published that acknowledge ARO support from the start of the project to the date of this printing. List the papers, including journal references, in the following categories: (b) Papers published in non-peer-reviewed journals (N/A for none) (c) Presentations Received Paper