Efforts to mitigate environmental threats are often inversely related to the magnitude of
casualty, human or otherwise. This “compassion fade” can be explained, in part, by …

This study explores the effects of the perspective-taking of non-player characters (NPCs) on
enhancing game immersion in prosocial virtual reality (VR) games. Prosocial games are …

Virtual reality offers the unique possibility to experience a virtual representation as our own
body. In contrast to previous research that predominantly studied this phenomenon for …

Virtual reality setups are particularly suited to create a tight bond between players and their
avatars up to a degree where we start perceiving the virtual representation as our own body …

Avatars in virtual reality (VR) can have body structures that differ from the physical self.
Game designers, for example, often stylize virtual characters by reducing the number of …

Even though virtual reality (VR) shares features with video games, it offers a wider range of
experiences. There is currently no cohesive classification for commercial VR offerings. As a …

Virtual Reality (VR) games and experiences predominantly have the users interact while
standing or seated. However, this only represents a fraction of the full diversity of human …

Because virtual reality (VR) shares common features with video games, consumer content is
usually classified according to traditional game genres and standards. However, VR offers …

Virtual Reality allows users to embody avatars that do not match their real bodies. Earlier
work has selected changes to the avatar arbitrarily and it therefore remains unclear how to …

Body ownership illusion can lead to give a user a feeling of becoming an avatar as if it was
their own body. Furthermore, existing studies have reported that an avatar's appearance can …