Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware (VRIH) is a professional academic journal that is approved by the State Administration of Radio and Television, directed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, hosted by China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. (the Science Press), and the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, published by Beijing Zhongke Journal Publishing Co., Ltd., Cooperation of Goertek Inc.; Professor Wang Yongtian of the Beijing Institute of Technology serves as the chief editor.
VRIH is an open access journal that aims to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of virtual reality and intelligent hardware. It provides a global publishing and academic exchange platform for researchers, professionals and industry practitioners. The journal offers high-quality single-blind peer review and is published bimonthly in English. Submissions are welcome on a variety of topics-specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
5G and VR/AR/MR
Artificial intelligence for VR/AR/MR
Audio interfaces, sound rendering and auditory perception
Brain interface
Computer graphics techniques
Computer vision techniques
Content creation, authoring and management
Conversational and speech interfaces
Crowd simulation
Display technologies
Embodied agents, virtual humans and (self-)avatars
Haptic and tactile interfaces, wearable haptics, passive haptics, pseudo haptics
Human augmentations
Human-computer interaction for VR/AR/MR
Human factors and ergonomics
Image analysis and video processing
Immersive analytics and visualization techniques
Input devices
Locomotion and navigation
Machine learning and deep learning
Mediated and diminished reality
Medical simulation and navigation
Modeling and simulation
Multi-user and distributed systems
Multimodal capturing and reconstruction
Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception
Multisensory rendering, registration, and synchronization
Perception and cognition
Presence, body ownership, and agency
Scene description and management issues
Sensor fusion
Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering
Storytelling
Teleoperation and telepresence
Touch, tangible and gesture interfaces
Tracking and sensing
Usage research, evaluation methods and empirical studies
VR/AR/MR applications
Articles published in VRIH include
Review：A prospective thesis written by authors for a specific topic by compiling and organizing large amounts of data, material, and the leading viewpoints from original research papers. The length of these papers is around 20 pages, and authors are typically invited by the editorial board to write these. Experts wishing to write these can request to do so with the relevant editorial board.
Research paper: Scientific analysis and comprehensive research and elaboration of phenomena (or problems) in the research domain on the premise that researchers have a sufficient grasp of the academic, innovative, and scientific aspects of the field and on the foundation of scientific experiments (or trials) will be accepted for submission. In-depth research, summary and innovative results, and conclusions regarding these phenomena need to be included in such papers, which should not exceed 15 pages in length.
Rapid Communication: Rapid communications papers report on the final or interim results of the cutting-edge, latest, unique, or significant scientific research topics in the field of virtual reality and smart devices. Papers should not exceed four pages, and priority will be given for publications.
Case report: Reports of representative experiments, inventions, or results.
News: Publication of news and communications of reports on research findings, policies, people, etc., to become a window for the reader to understand industry information. Academic journals, academic conferences, press conferences, and results evaluation can be used as sources for science and technology news.
Commentary：Experts are invited to write a commentary according to the topic. These papers include commentaries, editorials, short reviews, brief comments, guest commentaries, letters, etc.
VRIH articles are published directly on line, together with complete publishing information concerning page, issue, volume and DOI.
How to submit
Authors are recommended to use online submission services. To submit a manuscript, please go to http://www.vr-ih.com or https://www.editorialmanager.com/vrih/default.aspx to create an account, and follow the instructions there to upload text and image/ table files. Authors are encouraged to submit such accompanying materials as short statements on the research background and area/subareas and significance of the work, and brief introductions to the first and corresponding authors including their mailing addresses with post codes, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. Authors may also suggest several qualified experts (with full names, affiliations, phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses) as referees, and/or request the exclusion of some specific individuals from potential referees.
Reviewing policy
All submissions will be reviewed by referees selected by the editorial board. The decision of acceptance or rejection of a manuscript is made by the editorial board based on the referees’ reports. The entire review process may take 90 days, and the editorial office will inform the author of the decision as soon as the process is completed. If the editorial board fails to make a decision within 90 days, it is up to the authors to decide whether they would withdraw their article and submit it elsewhere.
