Guest Editors
Dr. S. L. Jayalakshmi, Vellore Institute of Technology, India.
Dr. R. Vedhapriyavadhana, Vellore Institute of Technology, India.
Dr. Girija R, VIT University, India.
Dr. Vimal Kumar Stephen, University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Sultanate of Oman.
Summary
The emergence of mobile device has transformed in our day-to-day life especially the smartphones and the other mobile devise are an essential part of our everyday life. With the aid of augument reality and virtual reality technologies, the gaming perspectives from a traditional method into a various technology affecting the gaming culture and society which also made the people to learn lot of new things in their life.
Gamers expect to have affordable, portable, competitive, dynamic, and reproducible environments to attract their attention, behaviour, engagement, and immersion. New challenges and opportunities have emerged as virtual reality mobile gaming has become the next ‘big thing’.
The aim of this Special Issue is to attract original research and review articles focused on addressing various challenges for virtual reality-based game development to enhance the gamer’s motivation, engagement, immersion, satisfaction, and higher level of interaction. It aims to bring together current achievements, findings, methodologies, theoretical studies, practical applications, high quality and state-of-the-art ideas and results, new technologies, and experimental prototypes towards the development of virtual reality-based mobile games.
Keywords
• Mobile gaming interactivity issues
• Mobile gaming design
• User modelling in mobile games
• Network architecture support for distributed mobile gaming
• Augmented and Virtual Reality environments for mobile games
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) for mobile games
• Multimedia gaming
• Mobile visualisation techniques
• Education and learning for mobile games
• AI applications for mobile games
• Mobile gaming methodologies
• Security and privacy for mobile gaming