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Motivated by Mark Billinghurst’s work about where AR (Augmented Reality) research is taking place, we investigated where VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) research is happening around the world based on scholarly articles published in the IEEE VR (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Virtual Reality) and ISMAR (International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality) proceedings. We analysed a total of 414 papers published in the last six years from 2012 to 2017 at the ISMAR and IEEE VR. The study shows that the USA leads both VR and AR research followed by Germany and France. The number of published VR papers seems increasing, on the other hand, the number of published AR papers seems slightly decreasing.
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Pognon, J., Chi, J., Salabert, A., Kim, K., Kim, S.J. (2020). Meta-Analysis of Global Activities in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). In: Jung, T., tom Dieck, M.C., Rauschnabel, P.A. (eds) Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37869-1_27
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