Immersive and Extended Reality (XR), encompassing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), has seen substantial advancements, expanding its audience and application areas significantly. These technologies facilitate enhanced presence, telepresence, and teleoperation by creating environments that extend beyond physical and virtual spaces. The incorporation of XR with artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning and deep learning, has further enriched these platforms, fostering substantial improvements in processing, visualization, and decision-making tasks.

This Research Topic seeks to present innovative advancements in XR technologies and their integration with AI to push the boundaries of exploration, monitoring, and intervention. We aim to explore how these integrated technologies can revolutionize user experiences, increase operational efficiency, and provide novel solutions in various fields through enhanced immersive interfaces and AI-driven controls.

Contributions are invited on a range of topics that demonstrate the integration of XR and AI technologies, including:

Development and application of immersive and MR interfaces for exploration, monitoring, and intervention.
Enhanced telepresence and teleoperation through XR technologies.
XR applications in human-machine interaction and multimodal control systems.
The implementation of sensors in XR and multi-sensor stimulation for richer interactive experiences.
AI-assisted methods for improving monitoring capabilities and tele-control operations.

This Research Topic is poised to gather and disseminate cutting-edge research that not only addresses the current capabilities of XR and AI integration but also identifies future directions and challenges in this dynamically evolving field. We encourage submissions that push the technological envelope, offer empirical insights, and propose novel frameworks that can lead to meaningful advancements in how these technologies are perceived and utilized.

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Frontiers in Virtual Reality

Technologies for VR