This article reports the impact of the degree of personalization and individualization of users'
avatars as well as the impact of the degree of immersion on typical psychophysical factors in …

In this paper, we present a scale construction and its initial test as a step towards a
standardized measure of the illusion of virtual body ownership (IVBO) in virtual simulations …

An increasingly large number of users connect to virtual worlds on a regular basis to conduct
activities ranging from gaming to business meetings. In all these worlds, users project …

Embodying virtual twins–photorealistic and personalized avatars–will soon be easily
achievable in consumer-grade VR. For the first time, we explored how photorealism and …

In this paper we report on an investigation of the effects of a self-avatar's visual similarity to a
user's actual appearance, on their perceptions of the avatar in an immersive virtual reality …

Virtual Reality (VR) allows us to replace our visible body with a virtual self-representation
(avatar) and to explore its effects on our body perception. While the feeling of owning and …

Virtual self-avatars have been increasingly used in Augmented Reality (AR) where one can
see virtual content embedded into physical space. However, little is known about the …

User embodiment is important for many virtual reality (VR) applications, for example, in the
context of social interaction, therapy, training, or entertainment. However, there is no data …

A 3D Telepresence system allows users to interact with each other in a virtual, mixed, or
augmented reality (VR, MR, AR) environment, creating a shared space for collaboration and …

In this paper we present a novel experiment to explore the impact of avatar realism on the
illusion of virtual body ownership (IVBO) in immersive virtual environments, with full-body …