Agnostic Extended Reality Development Strategies and Policies: A Systematic Literature Review

Jason Robert Rameshwar; Graham S. King

doi:10.5281/zenodo.17259575

Authors

Jason Robert Rameshwar The University of The West Indies https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0776-0857
Graham S. King The University of The West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-649X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17259575

Keywords:

PRISMA systematic review, XR development strategy and policy framework, XR literature sources, Title-focused Boolean search, Co-occurrence phrase search

Abstract

This work performed two PRISMA studies on literature from four academic databases, two search platforms, ten non-indexed journals, and eight XR websites from March to May 2023. The first study used a title-focused Boolean keyword search. The second study used a co-occurrence phrase search. The keywords and phrases relate to finding literature containing an XR development strategy or policy. The exclusion criteria involved non-English records, publications before 2019, and titles omitting search keywords or literature without co-occurrence phrases. The studies produced one eligible record. It is the authors’ 2023 publication of an agnostic XR development reference strategy used for the research questions, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and codebook. This research creates a systematic exclusion structure that researchers and stakeholders can adopt to identify potential XR development strategies or policies. The quantified breakdown of excluded and included literature from various sources and search strategies can guide future research work. This paper addresses the challenges of finding suitable literature and recommends removing data limitations, increasing literature sources, utilising non-academic search engines and AI LLMs, and implementing real-time alerts for new publications. The single eligible record highlights the research gap. It justifies the research focus on stakeholders' opinions and perspectives. The study identifies existing XR development literature with the potential to contribute to a partial strategy. It emphasises the need for more publications on clearly defined agnostic XR development strategies and policies. This paper demonstrates the value of reporting and publishing PRISMA studies that contain one or fewer records in the inclusion dataset.

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