Guest editorial of the special issue on improving display and rendering technologies for virtual environments

The five papers included in this special issue cover different representative contexts of use of tiled display technology, realistic real-time rendering to seamlessly combine virtual and real objects, new real-time interaction metaphors for human-computer interaction within largescale VR scenarios, low-cost real-time marker-less largearea tracking systems and applicability of both types of display devices (near-to-the-eye and large-screen displays) in the collaborative industrial product development process.