VR Environments -- Live Will Never Be the Same! How Broadcasting Might Influence the Acceptance and Widespread Usage of Augumented Reality -- Four Metamorphosis States in a Distributed Virtual (TV) Studio: Human, Cyborg, Avatar, and Bot - Markerless Tracking and Feedback for Realtime Animation Control -- VELOS - A VR Environment for Ship Applications: Current Status and Planned Extensions -- Underwater Mixed Environments -- Interaction and User Experience A Critical Analysis of Human-Subject Experiments in Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces -- Mobile Devices for Virtual Reality Interaction. A Survey of Techniques and Metaphors -- Hand Pose Recognition - Overview and Current Research -- Virtual Humans -- Applications of Avatar Mediated Interaction to Teaching, Training, Job Skills and Wellness -- VR-Assisted Physical Rehabilitation: Adapting to the Needs of Therapists and Patients -- Hierarchical Method for Segmentation by Classification of Motion Capture Data -- Content Creation and Authoring Challenges for Virtual Environments: From User Interfaces to Autonomous Virtual Characters -- Tele-Existence -- Technical Report: Exploring Human Surrogate Characteristics -- Telexistence: Past, Present, and Future.