RAVE: Real Action, Virtual Environments. We are concerned with why and under what conditions people act realistically within virtual environments, how to make it happen as well as the impact of emerging technologies.

Why do people smile at an avatar that is smiling at them, when they know full well that no one is there, and no one can see their smile?

Why do they become anxious when standing in front of a deep virtual hole in the ground, when they know for sure that there is no hole there?

Since the advent of virtual reality in the 1980s it has been well known that not only do people have a feeling of being transported to the place depicted by a virtual environment, but they also tend to act as if they were really there.

We invite the Presence community to register to the event  (Barcelona, March 3rd 2010). 

Download the RAVE10 Manifiesto. [347 KB]