Volumetric videos allow for a true three-dimensional experience where users can freely choose their viewing angles and be actually immersed in video clip. High quality productions are gaining attention first volumetric recordings commercially provided at select places. Unfortunately, the production process is very time, labour, technology-resource intensive, which requires specialist hardware, ...

In this paper, we present a new entertainment adaptive framework AIRSF for stress free air travels. Based on the passenger’s current and target comfort states, user entertainment preference, and context of use, the system uses a Markov decision process to recommend context-aware and personalized stress reduction entertainment to transfer the passenger from the current state to the target comfor...

In the early years of robotics, an industrial robot was developed, but in these days, an entertainment robot is emerging as a new type of a robot. The design methodologies for industrial robots were based on the task or the function of the robots. However, because the purpose of an entertainment robot is to stimulate people’s emotion rather than to provide function, it is needed to be designed ...

Most existing research on virtual reality concerns issues close to the interface, primarily how to present an underlying simulated world in a convincing fashion. However, for virtual reality to achieve its promise as a rich and popular artistic form, as have the novel, cinema, and television, we believe it will be necessary to explore well beyond the interface, to those issues of content and st...