A Collaborative Virtual Walkthrough of Matera's Sassi Using Photogrammetric Reconstruction and Hand Gesture Navigation.

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for real-time, collaborative virtual tools to support remote activities across various domains, including education and cultural heritage. Virtual walkthroughs provide a potent means of exploring, learning about, and interacting with historical sites worldwide. Nonetheless, creating realistic and user-friendly applications poses a significant challenge.

VICO-DR: A Collaborative Virtual Dressing Room for Image Consulting.

In recent years, extended reality has increasingly been used to enhance the shopping experience for customers. In particular, some virtual dressing room applications have begun to develop, as they allow customers to try on digital clothes and see how they fit. However, recent studies found that the presence of an AI or a real shopping assistant could improve the virtual dressing room experience.

BoidVR: An Agent Simulation Environment Based on Freehand and Virtual Reality.

Freehand-based interaction techniques (FITs) are an emerging technology of importance for effective virtual reality (VR). In this regard, most modern head-mounted displays, such as the Oculus Quest, are equipped with inside-out cameras for egocentric hand tracking and natural hand gestures recognition. Following this technological evolution, we have developed an agent-based modeling and simulation VR application, called BoidVR, focused on freehand-based interaction with simulated agents.