Tangyao Li

Tangyao Li, Yitong Zhu, Hai-Ning Liang et al.

As virtual reality (VR) systems advance, they are increasingly expected to adapt intelligently to individual users' states, abilities, and preferences. While prior research has examined user-state sensing and adaptive interaction design in VR, existing reviews typically address these aspects in isolation. In this paper, we examine the growing body of research on personalization in VR, with a particular focus on how user data collected during immersion is used to drive adaptive strategies that tailor the experience and enhance engagement, performance, or other specific goals. We synthesize findings from studies that employ adaptive techniques across diverse application domains and summarize a five-stage conceptual framework that unifies adaptive mechanisms across domains. Our analysis reveals emerging trends, including the integration of multimodal sensors, the transition from purely reactive to hybrid adaptation systems, and the adoption of artificial intelligence approaches. Finally, we identify key challenges related to data, modeling, and evaluation, and outline future research directions toward more effective and user-centered VR systems.

Lik-Hang Lee, Zijun Lin, Rui Hu et al.

The metaverse, enormous virtual-physical cyberspace, has brought unprecedented opportunities for artists to blend every corner of our physical surroundings with digital creativity. This article conducts a comprehensive survey on computational arts, in which seven critical topics are relevant to the metaverse, describing novel artworks in blended virtual-physical realities. The topics first cover the building elements for the metaverse, e.g., virtual scenes and characters, auditory, textual elements. Next, several remarkable types of novel creations in the expanded horizons of metaverse cyberspace have been reflected, such as immersive arts, robotic arts, and other user-centric approaches fuelling contemporary creative outputs. Finally, we propose several research agendas: democratising computational arts, digital privacy, and safety for metaverse artists, ownership recognition for digital artworks, technological challenges, and so on. The survey also serves as introductory material for artists and metaverse technologists to begin creations in the realm of surrealistic cyberspace.