Pith Number

pith:M4MFY2V3

pith:2017:M4MFY2V3W4IMDA5DI63OCTARZS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Virtual Reality: Blessings and Risk Assessment

Ayush Sharma, Kiran Khatter, Piyush Bajpai, Sukhdev Singh

arxiv:1708.09540 v1 · 2017-08-31 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4MFY2V3W4IMDA5DI63OCTARZS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:16.261025Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67185c6abbb710c183a347b6e14c11cca39457d06a81e9a12bf93ebe1f517755

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09540 · arxiv_version: 1708.09540v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09540 · pith_short_12: M4MFY2V3W4IM · pith_short_16: M4MFY2V3W4IMDA5D · pith_short_8: M4MFY2V3

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M4MFY2V3W4IMDA5DI63OCTARZS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 67185c6abbb710c183a347b6e14c11cca39457d06a81e9a12bf93ebe1f517755

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6ee77d64c9df39ec7f14b4dd4d2d46b5b81b79af97c3eda1fd6a5f248aa98d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-31T02:34:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ee00e31c289c3d45bcaaa7ca6f1440b8d9a532f7afd9b2273abd2e2db355589"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}