Virtual Reality and Scientific Visualization

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the availability of innovative, powerful, and low-cost immersive devices, accompanied by the availability of increasingly high-performing computers and smartphones, has generated a growing interest in virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.

Moreover, the availability of extremely high-performing development environments, such as Web3D, Blender, Unity 3D, Unreal Engine, etc., allow the development of applications in a fast and very efficient way.

Scientific visualization represents a fundamental field of research for the understanding of properties often hidden in information and raw data. This sector has also benefited from the enormous development that has been observed in both hardware and software technologies. This Special Issue aims to collect articles that can represent the state of the art in the development of virtual reality and augmented reality and scientific visualization.

The Special Issue is focused on (but not limited to) the following themes:

• Virtual reality systems;
• Virtual reality tools and toolkits;
• Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality;
• Virtual reality languages (X3D, VRML, Collada, OpenGL, Swift);
• Advances on game engines (Unity 3D, Unreal Engine, Amazon Lumberyard, AppGameKit VR, CryEngine, Godot);
• Immersive virtual reality devices (digital gloves, motion trackers, body trackers, HMDs);
• Virtual reality-based scientific visualization;
• Multi-user and distributed virtual reality and games;
• Immersive learning;
• Molecular virtual reality techniques;
• Virtual classes and practice;
• Virtual laboratories;
• Educational games;
• Virtual reality applied to cultural heritage;
• Virtual reality applied to medicine and surgery;
• VR systems for telecare and disabilities treatments;
• Advances in scientific visualization;
• Virtual Reality UI/UX;
• Virtual Reality Reduce sickness;
• Virtual Reality Contents;
• Virtual Reality system Developer Training.

Prof. Dr. Osvaldo Gervasi
Prof. Dr. Jung-yoon Kim
Guest Editors

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