Recent Advances on Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality and Post COVID-19

Dear Colleagues,

Social distancing, triggered by COVID-19, launched a new era platform called non-contact society. COVID-19 is spreading not only in retail and distribution, but also across society, such as education, entertainment, training telemedicine and telework, changing the paradigm of our lives. In addition, when the non-contact society was recognized as a new normal, digital transformation was accelerated.

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality have been extensively used in various application fields by using realistic technology. In particular, in the non-contact era, interaction using simple video communication is bound to have limitations, so interaction technology based on sensory technology is desperately needed. In this Special Issue, we plan to publish a study on the advancement of Virtual/Augmented and Mixed Reality technology and its application field. Although not particularly limited, we would like to recruit articles on the following sub-topics:

• Post-COVID and VR/AR/MR;
• Non-contact and VR/AR/MR;
• Learning management systems;
• Telemedicine and VR/AR/MR;
• Home training;
• Tactile sensing;
• Physic-based modeling and rendering;
• Disaster and safety technology;
• Virtual fitting;
• Educational technology;
• Multimedia applications;
• Human computer interaction;

Prof. Dr. Seongah Chin
Guest Editor

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