On the Effect of Social Context in Virtual Reality: An Examination of the Determinants of Human Behavior in Shared Immersive Virtual Environments

Virtual reality (VR) has been in the spotlight these past few years due to the commercial release of affordable VR headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. Although VR-related research has been developing for several decades and gradually expanding into numerous fields of science including various forms of therapy [1], [2] or education [3], once such technologies go mainstream, it is expected that their growth rate will skyrocket [4].