Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware (VRIH) is an academic journal supervised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and co-sponsored by China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. and Beihang University. It is ranked in the Q1 category of the Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design field in Scopus, with a CiteScore of 6.4 for 2024.
As an open-access journal, VRIH publishes high-quality research in virtual reality and intelligent hardware, providing an international platform for academia and industry. It releases bimonthly English issues and employs a rigorous single-blind peer-review process.
The journal covers a broad scope, including:
• 5G and VR/AR/MR
• Artificial intelligence for VR/AR/MR
• Audio interfaces, sound rendering, and auditory perception
• Brain-computer interfaces
• 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, and pseudo-haptics
• Human augmentation
• 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 capture 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
• 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
VRIH serves a global readership and welcomes submissions from researchers worldwide.
Indexed in the Following Databases:
1. Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
2. EI Compendex
3. Scopus
4. Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD)
5. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
6. DBLP - Computer Science Bibliography
7. INSPEC
8. CCF graded directory of high-quality journals indexed