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Virtual Geographical Environment
The concept of the virtual geographic environment (VGE) was proposed just 10 years, but it has become one of the most dynamic and creative research...
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Activator: An Immersive Virtual Reality Serious Game Platform for Highlighting Ancient Greek Civilization
Virtual reality (VR) became, in the last few years, an important pillar for promoting cultural heritage (CH) through serious games or virtual guided...
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Designing Virtual Spaces for Immersive Visual Analytics
Modern virtual reality (VR) technology has garnered significant attention in the geographic visualization community for its ability to immerse users...
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Data Model, E-Infrastructure Services, and the Virtual Research Environment (VRE)
Sierra Nevada is a unique setting in which a broad and extensive research tradition converges in both time and space with intensive monitoring of the...
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The who, what, and how of virtual participation in environmental research
As a group of social scientists supporting a large, national, multi-site project dedicated to studying ecosystem services in natural resource...
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Virtual Reality Experience Analysis from Point Cloud Data
This study explores the implementation of point cloud visualization in virtual reality environments to evaluate immersion based on point cloud...
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The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart urbanism: platformization and its underlying processes, institutional dimensions, and disruptive impacts
The emerging phenomenon of platformization has given rise to what has been termed "platform society,“ a digitally connected world where platforms...
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Immersive Virtual Reality to Verify the As-built State of Electric Line Networks in Buildings
Immersive virtual reality (IVR) allows viewing abstract concepts and entities in a three dimensional (3D) visuospatial environment. In this paper, we...
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Different Levels of Complexity for Integrating Textured Extra-terrestrial Elevation Data in Game Engines for Educational Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications
Elevation and visual data from Chang’E-2, Mars Viking, and MOLA were transformed into 3D models and environments using unity and unreal engine to be...
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Virtual Reality Application of the Fortress Al Zubarah in Qatar Including Performance Analysis of Real-Time Visualisation
Technological advancements in the area of Virtual Reality (VR) in the past years have the potential to fundamentally impact our everyday lives. VR...
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The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart cities: the ethics of the hyper-connectivity, datafication, algorithmization, and platformization of urban society
Recent advances in computing and immersive technologies have provided Meta (formerly Facebook) with the opportunity to leapfrog or expedite its way...
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Develo** and Evaluating Virtual Heiankyō AR
GIS and geographic information science (GISc) have advanced at breakneck speed in the past 20 years evidenced by the growing popularity of 3D GIS...
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Daylighting Past Realities: Making Historical Social Injustice Visible Again Using HGIS-Based Virtual and Mixed Reality Experiences
Twenty-first century technological advancements have the potential to support intersections between social science and geographic information systems...
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Changes in agricultural virtual water in Central Asia, 1992–2016
In recent years, flows of many rivers and lakes have become reduced in arid and semi-arid regions around the world. The most typical examples of this...
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Explanation of Factors Influencing Health: Residents-Environment Transactions and Institutional Factors
Factors associated with physical and mental health have been identified from residential environment and residential behavior, respectively. However,...
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Creating Immersive Virtual Environments Based on Open Geospatial Data and Game Engines
Modern game engines like Unity allow users to create realistic 3D environments containing terrains as well as natural and artificial objects easily...
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Metaverse as a Virtual Model of Smart Urbanism: Unveiling the Challenges for Cybersecurity
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the Metaverse, a vast ecosystem adoption centered on Extended Reality technology. As the creation of...
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Cartographic Scale in Immersive Virtual Environments
Scale has been a defining criterion of mapmaking for centuries. However, this criterion is fundamentally questioned by highly immersive virtual...
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Digital geoTwin: A CityGML-Based Data Model for the Virtual Replica of the City of Vienna
This paper presents a CityGML-based data model developed for the semantic 3D city model of Vienna, Austria. The data model consists in a profile of...