This special section of Presence presents papers selected from platform presentations at the 2022 International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (ISVR) Conference. Now called the World Congress for the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (WCISVR), the conference is ISVR's flagship meeting, providing an in-depth presentation of novel technologies and clinical developments in the field of virtual reality and associated topics related to rehabilitation and health improvement. ISVR 2022 was part of the larger RehabWeek 2022 event in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, which attracted 740 attendees from 48 countries. The ISVR presented 30 proceedings papers with 120 co-authors, including 25 podium talks and 2 keynotes. Over 160 delegates from 30 countries attended the sessions.
As noted by Denche-Zamorano et al. (2023) in their recent bibliometric analysis, scientific production in the field of virtual and augmented reality research has increased since 2009, and rehabilitation is one of the most prevalent publication domains....