Billinghurst, Mark2009-04-192009-04-192006Billinghurst, M. (2006) Virtual Reality Down Under: VR Research in Oceania. Journal of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 11(1), pp. 38-41.http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2319Oceania encompasses 15 nations and stretches over much of the Pacific Ocean, but only two of these countries are involved in any significant amount of Virtual Reality research; Australia and New Zealand. In this paper we briefly review recent research in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in Australia and New Zealand, summarize the view of the Japanese research environment and discuss future trends in local VR and AR research.envirtual realityresearchoceaniaJapanJournal ArticleFields of Research::280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences::280200 Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing::280211 Virtual reality and related simulation