NDLI: Extended Reality in Spatial Sciences: A Review of Research Challenges and Future Directions

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Extended Reality in Spatial Sciences: A Review of Research Challenges and Future Directions

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Author	Arzu, Çöltekin Zden, ěk Stachoň Petr, Kubíček Dajana, Snopková Lochhead, Ian Madden, Marguerite Christophe, Sidonie Devaux, Alexandre Pettit, Christopher Lock, Oliver Shukla, Shashwat Herman, Lukáš Bernardes, Sergio Hedley, Nicholas
Copyright Year	2020
Description	This manuscript identifies and documents unsolved problems and research challenges in the extended reality (XR) domain (i.e., virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed reality (MR)). The manuscript is structured to include technology, design, and human factor perspectives. The text is visualization/display-focused, that is, other modalities such as audio, haptic, smell, and touch, while important for XR, are beyond the scope of this paper. We further narrow our focus to mainly geospatial research, with necessary deviations to other domains where these technologies are widely researched. The main objective of the study is to provide an overview of broader research challenges and directions in XR, especially in spatial sciences. Aside from the research challenges identified based on a comprehensive literature review, we provide case studies with original results from our own studies in each section as examples to demonstrate the relevance of the challenges in the current research. We believe that this paper will be of relevance to anyone who has scientific interest in extended reality, and/or uses these systems in their research.
Starting Page	439
e-ISSN	22209964
DOI	10.3390/ijgi9070439
Journal	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Issue Number	7
Volume Number	9
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2020-07-15
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Isprs International Journal of Geo-information Computation Theory and Mathematics Extended Reality (xr) Virtual Reality (vr) Augmented Reality (ar) Mixed Reality (mr) Virtual Environments (ve) Giscience Research Challenges
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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