The JVWR, Volume 7, No. 2
Published: May 31, 2014

The editorial team for this issue includes:
Samuel Cruz-Lara – LORIA (UMR 7503) CNRS – INRIA, Université de Lorraine, France
Sue Gregory – University of New England, Australia
Urs-Vito Albrecht – Braunschweig University & Hannover Medical School, Germany
Christopher Lueg – University of Tasmania, Australia
The six papers in this issue demonstrate some of JVWR goals. They are pushing our thinking about both the virtual and the real, they are presenting “new” academic science that go beyond the trivial, and they are taking a stand about the world. We encourage authors to follow the diverse models presented here.
Original Call: CFP: General Call for Papers
Editor-In-Chief Corner
Impacting the Real Future via the Virtual Present
Yesha Y Sivan
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
Distributed Immersive Participation as Crowd-Sensing in Culture Events
Theo Kanter, Rahim Rahmani, Jamie Walters, Willmar Sauter
Rebecca Chui
Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration
Austin Tate, Jeffrey T Hansberger, Stephen Potter, Gerhard Wickler
Virtually Friends: An Exploration of Friendship Claims and Expectations in Immersive Virtual Worlds
Brooke Foucault Welles, Tommy Rousse, Nick Merrill, Noshir Contractor
Using 3D Virtual Standardized Patients to Teach Motivational Interviewing
Margaret Czart
T. Franklin Waddell, James D. Ivory, Rommelyn Conde, Courtney Long, Rachel McDonnell