Accurate long-term viewport prediction in tile-based 360° video adaptive streaming helps pre-download tiles for a further future, thus establishing a longer buffer to cope with network fluctuations. Long-term viewport motion is mainly influenced by ...

This paper evaluates a virtual teleportation system based on 360-degree video communication in a field study at a secondary school and a guided debate training session. Socioemotional aspects, including social presence and avatar representation, were ...

Learners are increasingly experiencing 360° videos across educational environments, including within spherical video virtual reality (SVVR) environments. Although 360° videos may offer an immersive experience, it is not yet clear if ...

• Spherical video virtual reality (SVVR) and 360° video are growing in popularity

This paper explores the potential for virtual reality (VR) to foster empathy towards non-humans. It examines how VR's unique characteristics of immersion and embodiment foment empathy by allowing users to perceive and interact with virtual environments ...

The production of immersive media often involves 360-degree viewing on mobile or immersive VR devices, particularly in the field of immersive journalism. However, it is unclear how the different technologies used to present such media affect the ...

360-degree video is becoming an integral part of our content consumption through both video on demand and live broadcast services. However, live broadcast is still challenging due to the huge network bandwidth cost if all 360-degree views are delivered ...

We investigate the user experience of taking a remote museum tour with 360 video technologies. We compare the experience of viewing a 360 video feed on a laptop screen vs. a 360 virtual reality (VR) video experienced through a head-mounted display (HMD)...

Collaborative exploration of 360 videos with contemporary interfaces is challenging because collaborators do not have awareness of one another's viewing activities. Tourgether360 enhances social exploration of 360° tour videos using a pseudo-spatial ...

Tour guiding plays an important role in turning sightseeing tours into memorable experiences. Tour guides, especially inexperienced ones, must practice intensively to perfect their craft. It is key that guides acquire knowledge about sights, in-situ ...

Virtual reality and immersive technologies are currently in full development. One of the most widely used formats in the medium are the 360 linear videos, which are proliferating thanks to the 360 cameras available today for the user. The forms of ...

Lucid dreaming is the awareness of being in a dream, allowing dream control and living out fantasies. It also has benefits for growth and well-being. Yet, lucid dreaming is not accessible to most people. So, we created Lucid Loop—a neurofeedback-...

With 360° video streaming, the user's field of view (a.k.a. viewport) is at all times determined by the user's current viewing direction. Since any two users are unlikely to look in the exact same direction as each other throughout the viewing of a ...

Research at the intersection of technology and sustainability is increasing across disciplines. Virtual reality is one technology used to address social issues, though less work has explored how immersive environments might impact a viewer's impression ...

In traditional video decoding applications, the number of elementary streams that a hardware decoding platform of an end device can decode is determined at runtime by the. Upon request by the application, the decoding platform verifies whether a new ...

With the increasing availability of head-mounted displays (HMDs) that show immersive 360° VR content, it is important to understand to what extent these immersive experiences can evoke emotions. Typically to collect emotion ground truth labels, users ...

Nursing students learn a variety of skills to work in a clinic, such as dealing with patients with particular requirements, handling expensive equipment, and assisting doctors with treatments. However, a specific situation may require hands-on experience ...

As head mounted displays and 360° video cameras are becoming affordable, they offer opportunities to personalise immersive learning experiences to local contexts and individuals. In this paper, we present lessons learnt from a participatory design ...

A major concern for filmmakers creating 360° video is ensuring that the viewer does not miss important narrative elements because they are looking in the wrong direction. This paper introduces gated clips which do not play the video past a gate time ...

This artifact includes source code, scripts and datasets required to reproduce the experimental figures in the evaluation of the MM'18 paper, which is entitled "MiniView Layout for Bandwidth-Efficient 360-Degree Video". The artifact reports the ...

This paper presents a remote 360-degree virtual reality (VR) gaming system for mobile devices. In this end-to-end scheme, execution of VR game is off-loaded from low-power mobile devices to a remote server where the executed game is rendered based on ...