Recently, point clouds have shown to be a promising way to represent 3D visual data for a
wide range of immersive applications, from augmented reality to autonomous cars …

Volumetric video (VV) pipelines reached a high level of maturity, creating interest to use
such content in interactive visualisation scenarios. VV allows real world content to be …

In recent years, the emergence of XR (eXtended Reality) applications, including
Holography, Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality, has resulted in the creation of rather …

Surface meshes associated with diffuse texture or color attributes are becoming popular
multimedia contents. They provide a high degree of realism and allow six degrees of …

Fueled by advances in multi-party communications, increasingly mature immersive
technologies being adopted, and the COVID-19 pandemic, a new wave of social virtual …

Social Virtual Reality (VR) allows multiple distributed users getting together in shared virtual
environments to socially interact and collaborate. This article explores the applicability and …

Over the past decade, three-dimensional (3D) graphics have become highly detailed to
mimic the real world, exploding their size and complexity. Certain applications and device …

This article discusses 'Metaverse'from a technical perspective, focusing on networked
systems aspects. Based on a technical definition of the 'Metaverse,'we examine the current …

Social VR enables people to interact over distance with others in real-time. It allows remote
people, typically represented as avatars, to communicate and perform activities together in a …

Volumetric video (VV) is a novel form of video that allows recreation of real-world scenes in
3D with users consuming the content from any viewpoint they desire. This makes VV best …