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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
Guja, J., Waligórski, J., Stawarz, K. T., Żądło A. and Ptaszek, G., Cave VR: Translating Philosophy into Immersive Experience, 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), www.doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct68609.2025.00264
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. (2025). The Problem of Digital Dualism in Social Virtual Reality Research: Toward a Hybrid Culture, Space, and Body. In Proceedings of 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VRW) – Workshop: ReViSI. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW66409.2025.00111
❤︎ 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
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)
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.
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).
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.
Academic Conferences (selected)
International:
Visuality and Cyberculture International Conference V-CYBERCULT 2024, 1-2.11.2024 r. – Talk: Can We Truly Envision a Post-National Reality? An Ethnography of Reproducing Banal Nationalism in Social Virtual Reality
The 22th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Sapienza University of Rome, online, 26-28.06.2024 r. - Poster: Becoming (Post)human in Social Virtual Reality: In Search of a Posthumanistic Approach to the Anthropology of Becoming Human in the Metaverse
ESOF2024: EuroScience Open Forum, Katowice, Poland, 12-15.06.2024 r. - Poster: From Digital Screens to Virtual Spaces: Reimagining Academic Conferences in the Age of Social VR
International Workshop on Gamification and Motivational Technologies, University of Zaragoza - GAMOTEC 2023, online, 29-30.11.2023 r. - Talk: Level up the academia: Can social VR change the way we think about scientific conferences?
The 3rd International Youth Conference on Language, Literature, and Education, online, 13.10.2023 r. – Talk: Revolutionizing Academic Conferences: Exploring the Educational Potential of Social VR
The 3rd International Conference on Research in Psychology, Oxford, UK, 24-26.03.2023 r. – Poster: Exploring the Potential of Virtual Reality Technology in the Treatment of Sexual Disorders
The 7th International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality Simulations ICVARS, Sydney, Australia, 3-5.03.2023 r. – Talk: Use of Virtual Reality Technology in the Treatment of Sexual Disorders - Preliminary Results of a Scoping Systematic Review
Visuality and Cyberculture International Conference V-CYBERCULT 2022, online, 17-18.10.2022 r. – Talk: How can virtual reality technology help us understand others better?
Nationwide (in Polish):
Dokąd zmierza kognitywistyka? Czyli o przyszłości kognitywistyki z mistrzami kierunku, online, 16-17.12.2022 r. – Keynote speaker: Trzeci wymiar konferencji online - o Wirtualium i potencjale środowiska VR-owego do organizacji naukowych wydarzeń (współautorzy: Liliana Kozak, Bartosz Olechowski).
Dokąd zmierza kognitywistyka? Czyli o przyszłości kognitywistyki z mistrzami kierunku, online, 16-17.12.2022 r. – Talk: Dlaczego ucieleśniona kognitywistyka potrzebuje wirtualnej rzeczywistości (i to ze wzajemnością)?
Ogólnokognitywistyczna konferencja HEKSAGON II, online, 19.11.2021 r. – Talk: Teleafordancje - od środowiska ekologicznego do wirtualnego
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