Frontiers in Virtual Reality – Online Seminar Series
The Editorial board of Frontiers in Virtual Reality is pleased to present a series of virtual seminars that will take place over the coming weeks. These seminars are aimed at students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of virtual and augmented reality and its applications. Interested members of the public would also be welcome.
**Please note, the final panel event of the series – Ethics Issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality – has now been scheduled for Thursday 17th September at 16:00 CEST (Brussels, Paris, Madrid).**
The seminars will be live-streamed on YouTube via this link:
https://www.youtube.com/c/xuenipan
Questions can be put to the speakers through the YouTube comments.
All the times displayed are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
| Speaker | Title | Date & time |
| Mel Slater melslater@ub.edu | Transforming the self through virtual reality | 11th May, 3:00pm CEST |
| Panel Session Sylvia Pan (moderator) Doron Friedman Anthony Steed Dave Haynes (VIVE) Dr Chi Xu (Nreal) | XR for bringing people together in times of lockdown and post-COVID | 13th May, 4:00pm CEST |
| Carolina Cruz Neira carolina@acm.org | Virtual Reality as the New Innovation Engine | 14th May, 6:00pm CEST |
| Anthony Steed a.steed@ucl.ac.uk | Technical Challenges of Mixed Reality | 18th May, 3:00pm CEST |
| Doug Bowman dbowman@vt.edu | Augmented Reality as the Future of Personal Computing | 20th May, 6:00pm CEST |
| Xueni (Sylvia) Pan x.pan@gold.ac.uk | Virtual Characters: from training to immersive gaming | 21st May, 3:00pm CEST |
| Eyal Ofek eyalofek@microsoft.com | Haptics for VR | 27th May, 6:00pm CEST |
| Doron Friedman doronf@idc.ac.il | Brain Control Interfaces (BCI) for VR: Explicit Control and Beyond | 1st June, 4:00pm CEST |
| Mar Gonzelez-Franco margon@microsoft.com | Impossible outside virtual reality | 4th June, 6:00pm CEST |
| Massimo Bergamasco massimo.bergamasco @santannapisa.it | Haptic Interaction in Virtual Environments | 5th June, 3:00pm CEST |
| Albert Skip Rizzo rizzo@ict.usc.edu | Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for PTSD | 8th June, 6:00pm CEST |
| Ronan Boulic ronan.boulic@epfl.ch | Ensuring Self-Presence through Embodied Interaction in Immersive VR | 12th June, 3:00pm CEST |
| Frank Steinicke frank.steinicke@uni-hamburg.de | Virtuality-Reality Interaction in Blended Reality Spaces | 17th June, 4:00pm CEST |
| Speakers: Patrick Haggard Thomas Metzinger Followed by a Panel Session chaired by: Jessica Driscoll Mel Slater Dali Szostak Thomas Metzinger Patrick Haggard Sylvia Pan Zillah Watson | Ethics Issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality | 17th September 4:00pm CEST |
Thanks to Sylvia Xueni Pan and Mar Gonzalez-Franco for technical help in making this possible.
Launched in December 2019, Frontiers in Virtual Reality is one of Frontiers’ newest journals, offering a dedicated open access platform for the latest work in the field of Virtual Reality.
We are in the process of launching our first article collections – if you have a theme in mind and would like to be involved, please email us at virtualreality@frontiersin.org