Prof Sylvia Xueni Pan PhD is a Professor of VR at Goldsmiths, University of London. She co-leads the Goldsmiths Social, Empathic, and Embodied VR lab (SeeVR Lab) and the MA/MSc in Virtual and Augmented Reality programme at Goldsmiths Computing. Her research interest is the use of Virtual Reality as a medium for real-time social interaction, in particular in the application areas of training and therapy.
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Social XR systems promise to overcome the limitations of current real-time teleconferencing systems, enabling a better sense of immersion, increasing the sense of presence and fostering more natural interpersonal interactions.