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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the technological aspects of Extended Realities (XR) and discusses the main challenges and future directions in the field.

This book is important and timely – XR technologies have overcome the 3 main aspects that were holding it back from mainstream adoption: cost, cables, and size. However, there are many aspects of XR technologies that are now going to be explored and developed that still need urgent research in terms of security, privacy, health and safety, long-term effects, addiction risks, and age-related developmental concerns, and the aim of the book is to inform all readers of these open issues and challenges. There are currently a great number of interdisciplinary researchers and developers working in the XR R&D field. Recently, XR technologies moved from the Gartner Hype Cycle onto the Plateau of Productivity on the Gartner Hype Cycle signaling that the fundamental XR technologies are now deemed mature technologies and ready for deployment in a wide variety of application areas. Corroborated by the fact that XR technologies are part of the future Metaverse, a concept that went rapidly mainstream during the time of writing of this book.

Roadmapping Extended Reality is divided into two parts: (1) fundamentals and (2) applications. The first part covers the main technological aspects of XR. The chapters in this section review and discuss relevant fundamental concepts of XR, the actual state-of-the-art, and future challenges. The second part of the book focuses on covering a wide range of applications of XR including a future roadmap. All in all, the book offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in XR and addresses the needs of a multidisciplinary audience working in both academia and the industry, as well as stakeholders at government agencies and non-profit organizations.

Audience This book is aimed at academic and industrial developers, exploring and developing applications in the XR, VR, AR, AI, smart IoT, 4th Industrial Revolution space, including those that are solving technology requirements, human factors, evaluation methodology advances, and ROI investigations.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the technological aspects of Extended Realities (XR) and discusses the main challenges and future directions in the field.

This book is important and timely – XR technologies have overcome the 3 main aspects that were holding it back from mainstream adoption: cost, cables, and size. However, there are many aspects of XR technologies that are now going to be explored and developed that still need urgent research in terms of security, privacy, health and safety, long-term effects, addiction risks, and age-related developmental concerns, and the aim of the book is to inform all readers of these open issues and challenges. There are currently a great number of interdisciplinary researchers and developers working in the XR R&D field. Recently, XR technologies moved from the Gartner Hype Cycle onto the Plateau of Productivity on the Gartner Hype Cycle signaling that the fundamental XR technologies are now deemed mature technologies and ready for deployment in a wide variety of application areas. Corroborated by the fact that XR technologies are part of the future Metaverse, a concept that went rapidly mainstream during the time of writing of this book.

Roadmapping Extended Reality is divided into two parts: (1) fundamentals and (2) applications. The first part covers the main technological aspects of XR. The chapters in this section review and discuss relevant fundamental concepts of XR, the actual state-of-the-art, and future challenges. The second part of the book focuses on covering a wide range of applications of XR including a future roadmap. All in all, the book offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in XR and addresses the needs of a multidisciplinary audience working in both academia and the industry, as well as stakeholders at government agencies and non-profit organizations.

Audience This book is aimed at academic and industrial developers, exploring and developing applications in the XR, VR, AR, AI, smart IoT, 4th Industrial Revolution space, including those that are solving technology requirements, human factors, evaluation methodology advances, and ROI investigations.

The 42 full and 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers discuss key issues, approaches, ideas, open problems, innovative applications and trends in virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, applications in cultural heritage, in medicine, in education, and in industry.

The 42 full and 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers discuss key issues, approaches, ideas, open problems, innovative applications and trends in virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, applications in cultural heritage, in medicine, in education, and in industry.

This two-volume set LNCS 14218 and LNCS 14219 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2023, held in Lecce, Italy, during September 6-9, 2023.

The 60 full papers presented together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions.

They cover a wide range of many different research topics such as: eXtended reality; digital twin; artificial intelligence; user experience in eXtended reality; virtual reality for neurofeedback, biofeedback and emotion recognition; eXtended reality in education; eXtended reality and metaverse in cultural heritage; eXtended reality in health and medicine; and eXtended reality in industrial field.

This two-volume set LNCS 14218 and LNCS 14219 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2023, held in Lecce, Italy, during September 6-9, 2023.

The 59 full papers presented together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions.

They cover a wide range of many different research topics such as: eXtended reality; digital twin; artificial intelligence; user experience in eXtended reality; virtual reality for neurofeedback, biofeedback and emotion recognition; eXtended reality in education; eXtended reality and metaverse in cultural heritage; eXtended reality in health and medicine; and eXtended reality in industrial field.

The four-volume proceedings set LNCS 15027, 15028, 15029 and 15030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2024, held in Lecce, Italy during September 4–7, 2024.

The 63 full papers and 50 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Extended Reality; Artificial Intelligence & Extended Reality; Extended Reality and Serious Games in Medicine; Extended Reality in Medicine and Rehabilitation; Extended Reality in Industry; Extended Reality in Cultural Heritage; Extended Reality Tools for Virtual Restauration; Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Humanities; Extended Reality in Learning; and Extended Reality, Sense of Presence and Education of Behaviour.

The four-volume proceedings set LNCS 15027, 15028, 15029 and 15030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2024, held in Lecce, Italy during September 4–7, 2024.

The 63 full papers and 50 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Extended Reality; Artificial Intelligence & Extended Reality; Extended Reality and Serious Games in Medicine; Extended Reality in Medicine and Rehabilitation; Extended Reality in Industry; Extended Reality in Cultural Heritage; Extended Reality Tools for Virtual Restauration; Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Humanities; Extended Reality in Learning; and Extended Reality, Sense of Presence and Education of Behaviour.

The four-volume proceedings set LNCS 15027, 15028, 15029 and 15030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2024, held in Lecce, Italy during September 4–7, 2024.

The 63 full papers and 50 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Extended Reality; Artificial Intelligence & Extended Reality; Extended Reality and Serious Games in Medicine; Extended Reality in Medicine and Rehabilitation; Extended Reality in Industry; Extended Reality in Cultural Heritage; Extended Reality Tools for Virtual Restauration; Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Humanities; Extended Reality in Learning; and Extended Reality, Sense of Presence and Education of Behaviour.

The four-volume proceedings set LNCS 15027, 15028, 15029 and 15030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2024, held in Lecce, Italy during September 4–7, 2024.

The 63 full papers and 50 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Extended Reality; Artificial Intelligence & Extended Reality; Extended Reality and Serious Games in Medicine; Extended Reality in Medicine and Rehabilitation; Extended Reality in Industry; Extended Reality in Cultural Heritage; Extended Reality Tools for Virtual Restauration; Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Humanities; Extended Reality in Learning; and Extended Reality, Sense of Presence and Education of Behaviour.