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Guja, J., Waligórski, J., Stawarz, K., Żądło, A., & Ptaszek, G. (2026). Virtual Reality as Philosophy Machine: A Proof-of-Concept Study, Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts) https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799306
Głebocka, A., Zaczek, W., Mierzejewska, N., & Waligórski, J. (2025) VReligion: Experiencing the Sacred in Social Virtual Reality–Preliminary Results. 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct68609.2025.00007
Waligórski, J., Butkiewicz, S., Cząstkiewicz, A., Guja, J., & Samsel, Z. (2025). Carrying the Burden of Innovation in Education: Becoming Educational Events Organizers in Social Virtual Reality. International Journal of Research in E-Learning, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.31261/IJREL.2025.11.1.01
❤︎ Waligórski, J. (2025). From the Metaverse to the Tower of Babel: Investigating the Socio-Cultural Exclusion of Polish Users on Social VR Platforms. In Proceedings of 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VRW) – Workshop: SIC-XR. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW66409.2025.00113
❤︎ Waligórski, J. (2024) From Avatars to Hybrid Bodies: Postdualist and Posthumanist Approaches to the Anthropology of Virtual Reality, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 38, https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2023.38.2848
Waligórski, J., Cząstkiewicz, A., Samsel, Z., Frys, N. (2023) Reimagining Online Academic Conferences: The Promise of Social Virtual Reality for the Return of Co-Presence. International Journal of Research in E-learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/IJREL.2023.9.2.05
in Polish:
Waligórski, J. (2023) Jak to jest być nietoperzem w wirtualnej rzeczywistości? Technologia VR jako narzędzie do doświadczania perspektywy innego, AVANT: TRENDS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, 14/3. http://dx.doi.org/10.26913/avant.202302
Waligórski, J. (2022) Koncepcja teleafordancji – o sposobie istnienia afordancji (i nie tylko) w środowisku wirtualnym 3D, Kultura i Historia (UMCS), 41/2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20375/0000-000F-7389-5
Pre-prints:
Waligórski, J. (2024, October 14). From the Metaverse to the Tower of Babel: Investigating the Socio-Cultural Exclusion of Non-Native English Speakers on Social VR Platforms. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/fb2st
Translations of my papers by other authors:
Anatoly N. Lipov, От аватаров к гибридным телам: постдуалистские и постгуманистические подходы к антропологии виртуальной реальности. Перевод с английского, https://corpusmundi.com/index.php/cmj/article/view/116
Research Grants
❤︎ 2025-2027 - Phantom Touch, Cybersex, and Fitness for the Shy: A Meta-Ethnography of Virtual Embodiment in Social Virtual Reality Cultures, Principal Investigator, Preludium 24, National Science Centre - NCN (167 201 PLN)
2024-2025 - Anthropological research on virtual embodiment on social VR platforms, Principal Investigator, Minigrant of the Faculty of Humanities, AGH (5 100 PLN)
2024-2025 - Ethnographic Research on Polish Users of Social Virtual Reality, Principal Investigator, Founder: Excellence Initiative – Research University AGH (14 000 PLN)
2024-2027 - XR Body Research Group, Investigator, Founder: Excellence Initiative – Research University AGH (386 000 PLN)
2022-2023 - The Application of Virtual Reality Technology in the Treatment of Sexual Disorders, Principal Investigator, Founder: "The Best of the Best 4.0" - Polish Ministry of Education and Science (120 000 PLN)
Invited Lectures
Adelaide University, IVE (Australia), March 2026, Title: From Fragmented Findings to Theoretical Integration: Applying Meta-Ethnography to Social VR Embodiment Research
Digital Sociology Section of the Polish Sociological Association (PL), January 2026, Title: How to Study AI Sociologically? Proposals from the Human-AI Studies AGH Research Group
University of Buenos Aires, Area of Visual Anthropology (Argentina), July 2025, Title: VR as an Anthropological Laboratory: Why Should Virtual Reality Be Interesting for Anthropologists and Beyond?
AGH University of Krakow, Student Cultural Studies Society (PL), October 2024, Title: Ethnographic Research on the (Re)Production of National Identities in Virtual Reality
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (PL), March 2024, Title: Conference ABCs: How to Organize, Fund, and Improve an In-person and Remote Scientific Conference?
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (PL), December 2022, Nationwide Conference: Where is Cognitive Science Heading? An Inquiry into the Future of Cognitive Science with the Field's Masters, Title: The Third Dimension of Online Conferences – On Wirtualium and the Potential of the VR Environment for Organizing Scientific Events
Currently Implemented Research Projects
Posthumanist Anthropology of Embodied Virtual Reality
PhD Student, Principal Investigator
I am currently pursuing my PhD at AGH University in Poland, where I engage in posthumanist anthropology, underpinned by new materialism, to conduct field research on social VR platforms. My research delves into the embodied dimension of user socio-cultural practices, examining the processes of hybridization and the reconfiguration of the boundaries of the (post)human body. This study is prompted by the growing popularity of social VR platforms and the advent of novel somatic phenomena therein. Moreover, VR serves as an anthropological laboratory for the body in my view, offering new perspectives on its study.
Part of the research is conducted under the grant 'Ethnographic Research on Polish Users of Social Virtual Reality' (IDUB AGH), with myself as the Principal Investigator.
Phantom Touch, Cybersex, and Fitness for the Shy: A Meta-Ethnography of Virtual Embodiment in Social Virtual Reality Cultures
Principal Investigator
I received funding in the National Science Centre’s Preludium competition for my project “Phantom Touch, Cybersex, Fitness for the Shy: A Meta-Ethnography of Virtual Embodiment in Social VR” (167,201 PLN; 36 months). In this project, I employ meta-ethnography to develop a comprehensive theory of virtual embodiment, examining how users of social VR platforms experience the relationship between their physical and virtual bodies and how they perform identity in virtual worlds.
XR Body Research Group
Investigator
In 2024, the interdisciplinary XR Body Research Group began its activities as part of the research grant "Research on the Relationship Between the Physical Body and the Virtual Body" carried out at AGH University (IDUB AGH).
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