Isness: using multi-person VR to design peak mystical type experiences comparable to psychedelics

DR Glowacki, MD Wonnacott, R Freire… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Studies combining psychotherapy with psychedelic drugs (Ds) have demonstrated positive
outcomes that are often associated with'Ds' ability to induce'mystical-type'experiences …

Tapping with a handheld stick in vr: Redirection detection thresholds for passive haptic feedback

Y Zhou, V Popescu - 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates providing grounded passive haptic feedback to a user of a VR
application through a handheld stick with which the user taps virtual objects. Such an …

Subtle sensing: Detecting differences in the flexibility of virtually simulated molecular objects

R Roebuck Williams, X Varcoe, BR Glowacki… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
During VR demos we have performed over last few years, many participants (in the absence
of any haptic feedback) have commented on their perceived ability to'feel'differences …

OMG-VR: Open-source mudra gloves for manipulating molecular simulations in VR

R Freire, BR Glowacki, RR Williams… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
As VR finds increasing application in scientific research domains like nanotechnology and
biochemistry, we are beginning to better understand the domains in which it brings the most …

Teaching enzyme catalysis using an open source framework for interactive molecular dynamics in virtual reality

S Bennie, K Ranaghan, H Deeks, H Goldsmith… - 2019 - chemrxiv.org
The reemergence of virtual reality (VR) in the last few years has led to affordable commodity
hardware that can offer new ways to teach, communicate and engage with difficult concepts …

[PDF][PDF] Ontological Context for Gesture Interpretation.

P Vanc, K Stépánová, D Beßler - RobOntics@ RO-MAN, 2023 - ceur-ws.org
This study explores gesture interpretation by utilizing an ontological context. The aim is to
store gestures and scene context data in an ontology and use its knowledge graph to …