Immersive Technologies for Smart Environments: Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Multimedia".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2025 | Viewed by 92
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Interests: implications of immersive technologies (VR/AR/MR) in healthcare, education, robotics and automation, simulation and training, and smart environments; CAx technologies; bioengineering; additive manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The integration of immersive technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), within smart environments represents a cutting-edge research frontier with the potential to revolutionize how we interact with and manage these complex systems. This Special Issue aims to explore the innovative applications, theoretical advancements, and technological developments that combine VR, AR, and MR with smart environments to enhance user experiences, optimize operations, and support decision-making processes.
Smart environments—encompassing smart homes, cities, healthcare facilities, and industrial settings—are increasingly reliant on sophisticated systems of sensors, networks, and artificial intelligence to function efficiently. Immersive technologies like VR, AR, and MR provide powerful interfaces for interacting with these environments, enabling more intuitive control, improved situational awareness, and enhanced training and simulation experiences. AR and MR, in particular, offer unique advantages by overlaying digital information onto the real world, thereby enriching the user's perception and interaction with their surroundings.
This Special Issue seeks contributions that address a wide range of topics, including but not limited to, VR/AR/MR-based interfaces for smart environment control, the role of these technologies in enhancing the accessibility and usability of smart systems, and their use in simulating, visualizing, and optimizing the operation of smart environments. Interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between immersive technologies, human–computer interaction, and smart environment systems is especially encouraged.
Through this Special Issue, we aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in VR, AR, and MR applications for smart environments and highlight emerging trends and future research directions.
Dr. Radu Emanuil Petruse
Dr. Valentin Grecu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- immersive technologies
- virtual reality (VR)
- augmented reality (AR)
- mixed reality (MR)
- smart environments
- human–computer interaction
- immersive interfaces
- smart cities
- simulation and training
- sensor networks
- artificial intelligence
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