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Virtual reality is leading all industries into the future

The media landscape is shifting to favour newer technologies, with virtual reality growing faster than any other digital format. Fuelled by ever larger investments and new types of applications virtual reality is an exciting technology, but not everything is perfect.

Casey Harlow

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Research

Sep 2020

Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context

Domna Banakou, Alejandro Beacco, Solène Neyret, Marta Blasco-Oliver, Sofia Seinfeld and Mel Slater

Research

May 2020

Being the Victim of Intimate Partner Violence in Virtual Reality: First- Versus Third-Person Perspective

C. Gonzalez-Liencres, L. E. Zapata, G. Iruretagoyena, S. Seinfeld, L. Perez-Mendez, J. Arroyo-Palacios, D. Borland, M. Slater, and M. V. Sanchez-Vives

Research

Apr 2020

First-Person Virtual Embodiment Modulates the Cortical Network that Encodes the Bodily Self and Its Surrounding Space during the Experience of Domestic Violence

A. W. de Borst, M. V. Sanchez-Vives, M. Slater & B. de Gelder

Research

Apr 2020

An Embodied Perspective as a Victim of Sexual Harassment in Virtual Reality Reduces Action Conformity in a Later Milgram Obedience Scenario

S. Neyret, X. Navarro, A. Beacco, R. Oliva, P. Bourdin, J. Valenzuela, I. Barberia & M. Slater

Research

Mar 2020

Which Body Would You Like to Have? The Impact of Embodied Perspective on Body Perception and Body Evaluation in Immersive Virtual Reality

S. Neyret, A. Bellido Rivas, X. Navarro & M. Slater

Research

Mar 2020

The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality

M. Slater, C. Gonzalez-Liencres, P. Haggard, C. Vinkers, R. Gregory-Clarke, S. Jelley, Z. Watson, G. Breen, R. Schwarz, W. Steptoe, D. Szostak, S. Halan, D. Fox and J. Silver

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research papers

Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context

Being the Victim of Intimate Partner Violence in Virtual Reality: First- Versus Third-Person Perspective

First-Person Virtual Embodiment Modulates the Cortical Network that Encodes the Bodily Self and Its Surrounding Space during the Experience of Domestic Violence

An Embodied Perspective as a Victim of Sexual Harassment in Virtual Reality Reduces Action Conformity in a Later Milgram Obedience Scenario

Which Body Would You Like to Have? The Impact of Embodied Perspective on Body Perception and Body Evaluation in Immersive Virtual Reality

The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality