Huiwen Zhao, Alex Kelly, Vedad Hulusic, Fred Charles
In this paper we present details of a virtual tour and game for VR headset that are designed to investigate an interactive and engaging approach of applying VR to student recruitment for an undergraduate course. The VR tour employs a floating menu to navigate through a set of 360° panoramic photographs of the teaching environment and uses hotspot interaction to display further information about the course. The VR game is a fast-paced shooting game. The course information is embedded on cubes that the player needs to focus on and destroy. The game experience is expected to generate an engaging way to promote the course. This work in progress outlines the concept and development of the prototype, and discusses the next stages of testing in order to evaluate the effectiveness of applying VR to undergraduate student recruitment.
{"title":"The Application of Virtual Reality in Student Recruitment","authors":"Huiwen Zhao, Alex Kelly, Vedad Hulusic, Fred Charles","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489936","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present details of a virtual tour and game for VR headset that are designed to investigate an interactive and engaging approach of applying VR to student recruitment for an undergraduate course. The VR tour employs a floating menu to navigate through a set of 360° panoramic photographs of the teaching environment and uses hotspot interaction to display further information about the course. The VR game is a fast-paced shooting game. The course information is embedded on cubes that the player needs to focus on and destroy. The game experience is expected to generate an engaging way to promote the course. This work in progress outlines the concept and development of the prototype, and discusses the next stages of testing in order to evaluate the effectiveness of applying VR to undergraduate student recruitment.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126662370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Entanglement is a unique phenomenon in quantum physics that describes a correlated relationship in the measurement of a group of spatially separated particles. In the fields of science fiction, game design, art and philosophy, it has inspired the creation of numerous innovative works. We present EntangleVR, a novel method to create entanglement-inspired virtual scenes with the goal to simplify representing this phenomenon in the design of interactive VR games and experiences. By providing a reactive visual programming interface, users can integrate entanglement into their design without requiring prior knowledge of quantum computing or quantum physics. Our system enables fast creation of complex scenes composed of virtual objects with manipulable correlated behaviors.
{"title":"EntangleVR: A Visual Programming Interface for Virtual Reality Interactive Scene Generation","authors":"Mengyu Chen, M. Peljhan, Misha Sra","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489872","url":null,"abstract":"Entanglement is a unique phenomenon in quantum physics that describes a correlated relationship in the measurement of a group of spatially separated particles. In the fields of science fiction, game design, art and philosophy, it has inspired the creation of numerous innovative works. We present EntangleVR, a novel method to create entanglement-inspired virtual scenes with the goal to simplify representing this phenomenon in the design of interactive VR games and experiences. By providing a reactive visual programming interface, users can integrate entanglement into their design without requiring prior knowledge of quantum computing or quantum physics. Our system enables fast creation of complex scenes composed of virtual objects with manipulable correlated behaviors.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124193709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A motion platform provides the vestibular stimuli that elicit the sensations of self-motion and thereby improves the immersiveness. A representative example is a 4D Ride, which presents a video of POV shots and motion effects synchronized with the camera motion in the video. Previous research efforts resulted in a few automatic motion effect synthesis algorithms for POV shots. Although effective in generating gross motion effects, they do not consider fine features on the ground, such as a rough or bumpy road. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for styling the gross motion effects using a texture image. Our algorithm transforms a texture image into a high-frequency style motion and merges it with the original motion while respecting both perceptual and device constraints. A user study demonstrated that texture styling could increase immersiveness, realism, and harmony.
{"title":"Image-Based Texture Styling for Motion Effect Rendering","authors":"Beomsu Lim, Sangyoon Han, Seungmoon Choi","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489854","url":null,"abstract":"A motion platform provides the vestibular stimuli that elicit the sensations of self-motion and thereby improves the immersiveness. A representative example is a 4D Ride, which presents a video of POV shots and motion effects synchronized with the camera motion in the video. Previous research efforts resulted in a few automatic motion effect synthesis algorithms for POV shots. Although effective in generating gross motion effects, they do not consider fine features on the ground, such as a rough or bumpy road. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for styling the gross motion effects using a texture image. Our algorithm transforms a texture image into a high-frequency style motion and merges it with the original motion while respecting both perceptual and device constraints. A user study demonstrated that texture styling could increase immersiveness, realism, and harmony.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130323511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Historic buildings shown in open-air museums often lack a good accessibility and visitors rarely can interact with them as well as displayed tools to learn about processes. Providing these buildings in Virtual Reality could be a great supplement for museums to provide accessible and interactive offers. To investigate the effectiveness of this approach and to derive design guidelines, we developed an interactive virtual replicate of a medieval mill. We present the design of the mill and the results of a preliminary usability evaluation.
{"title":"Recreating a Medieval Mill as a Virtual Learning Environment","authors":"David Fernes, S. Oberdörfer, M. Latoschik","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489899","url":null,"abstract":"Historic buildings shown in open-air museums often lack a good accessibility and visitors rarely can interact with them as well as displayed tools to learn about processes. Providing these buildings in Virtual Reality could be a great supplement for museums to provide accessible and interactive offers. To investigate the effectiveness of this approach and to derive design guidelines, we developed an interactive virtual replicate of a medieval mill. We present the design of the mill and the results of a preliminary usability evaluation.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131903259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Locomotion systems used in virtual reality (VR) content have a significant impact on the content user experience. One of the most important factors of a walking system in VR is whether it can provide a plausible walking sensation because it is considered directly related to the user’s sense of presence. However, joystick-based and teleportation-based locomotion systems, which are commonly used today, can hardly provide an appropriate sense of presence to a user. To solve this problem, we present Swaying Locomotion, which is a novel VR-based locomotion system that uses head movements to support a user walking in a VR space while actually sitting in real space. Our user study suggests that Swaying Locomotion provides a better walking sensation than the traditional joystick-based approach.
{"title":"Swaying Locomotion: A VR-based Locomotion System through Head Movements","authors":"M. Shimizu, T. Nakajima","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489897","url":null,"abstract":"Locomotion systems used in virtual reality (VR) content have a significant impact on the content user experience. One of the most important factors of a walking system in VR is whether it can provide a plausible walking sensation because it is considered directly related to the user’s sense of presence. However, joystick-based and teleportation-based locomotion systems, which are commonly used today, can hardly provide an appropriate sense of presence to a user. To solve this problem, we present Swaying Locomotion, which is a novel VR-based locomotion system that uses head movements to support a user walking in a VR space while actually sitting in real space. Our user study suggests that Swaying Locomotion provides a better walking sensation than the traditional joystick-based approach.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132148693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In-stadium sports spectating delivers a unique social experience in a variety of sports. However, in contrast to broadcast delivery, it lacks the provision of real-time information augmentation, like game statistics overlaid on screen. In an earlier iteration, we developed ARSpectator, a prototypical, mobile system which can be brought to the stadium to experience both, the live sport action and situated infographics spatially augmented into the scene. In some situations it is difficult or often impossible to go to the stadium though, for instance because of limited stadium access during pandemics or when wanting to conduct controlled user studies. We address this by turning our ARSpectator system into an indirect augmented reality experience deployed to an immersive, virtual reality head-mounted display: The live stadium experience is delivered by way of a surrounding 360 video recording while maintaining and extending the provision of interactive, situated infographics. With our XRSpectator demo prototype presented here, users can have an ARSpectator experience of a rugby game in our local stadium.
{"title":"XRSpectator: Immersive, Augmented Sports Spectating","authors":"Wei Hong Lo, S. Zollmann, H. Regenbrecht","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489930","url":null,"abstract":"In-stadium sports spectating delivers a unique social experience in a variety of sports. However, in contrast to broadcast delivery, it lacks the provision of real-time information augmentation, like game statistics overlaid on screen. In an earlier iteration, we developed ARSpectator, a prototypical, mobile system which can be brought to the stadium to experience both, the live sport action and situated infographics spatially augmented into the scene. In some situations it is difficult or often impossible to go to the stadium though, for instance because of limited stadium access during pandemics or when wanting to conduct controlled user studies. We address this by turning our ARSpectator system into an indirect augmented reality experience deployed to an immersive, virtual reality head-mounted display: The live stadium experience is delivered by way of a surrounding 360 video recording while maintaining and extending the provision of interactive, situated infographics. With our XRSpectator demo prototype presented here, users can have an ARSpectator experience of a rugby game in our local stadium.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134073949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anxiety-inducing and assessment methods in Virtual Reality has been a topic of discussion in recent literature. The importance of the topic is related to the difficulty of getting accurate and timely measurements of anxiety without relying on self-report and breaking the immersion. To this end, the current study utilises the emotional version of a well-established cognitive task; the Stroop Color-Word Task and brings it to Virtual Reality. It consists of three levels; congruent which is used as control and corresponds with no anxiety, incongruent, which corresponds with mild anxiety and emotional, which corresponds with severe anxiety. This pilot serves two functions. The first is to validate the effects of the task using biosignal measurements. The second is to use the bio signal information and the labels to train a machine-learning algorithm. The information collected by the pilot will be used to decide what types of signals and devices to use in the final product, as well as what algorithm and time frame will be better suited for the purpose of accurately determining the user’s anxiety level within Virtual Reality without breaking the immersion.
{"title":"Emotional Virtual Reality Stroop Task: Pilot Design","authors":"Deniz Mevlevioğlu, S. Tabirca, D. Murphy","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489952","url":null,"abstract":"Anxiety-inducing and assessment methods in Virtual Reality has been a topic of discussion in recent literature. The importance of the topic is related to the difficulty of getting accurate and timely measurements of anxiety without relying on self-report and breaking the immersion. To this end, the current study utilises the emotional version of a well-established cognitive task; the Stroop Color-Word Task and brings it to Virtual Reality. It consists of three levels; congruent which is used as control and corresponds with no anxiety, incongruent, which corresponds with mild anxiety and emotional, which corresponds with severe anxiety. This pilot serves two functions. The first is to validate the effects of the task using biosignal measurements. The second is to use the bio signal information and the labels to train a machine-learning algorithm. The information collected by the pilot will be used to decide what types of signals and devices to use in the final product, as well as what algorithm and time frame will be better suited for the purpose of accurately determining the user’s anxiety level within Virtual Reality without breaking the immersion.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121431562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Product line engineering model is suitable for engineering related software products in an efficient manner, taking advantage of their similarities while managing their differences. Our feature driven software product line (SPL) solution based on that model allows for instantiation of different CAVE products based on the set of core assets and driven by a set of common VR features with the minimal budget and time to market.
{"title":"CAVE applications: from craft manufacturing to product line engineering","authors":"J. Lebiedź, B. Wiszniewski","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489948","url":null,"abstract":"Product line engineering model is suitable for engineering related software products in an efficient manner, taking advantage of their similarities while managing their differences. Our feature driven software product line (SPL) solution based on that model allows for instantiation of different CAVE products based on the set of core assets and driven by a set of common VR features with the minimal budget and time to market.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128426057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This work presents the design and evaluation of three bimanual interaction modalities for cross-workspace interaction in virtual reality (VR), in which the user can move items between a personal workspace and a shared workspace. We conducted an empirical study to understand three modalities and their suitability for cross-workspace interaction in VR.
{"title":"Freehand Interaction in Virtual Reality: Bimanual Gestures for Cross-Workspace Interaction","authors":"Chao Peng, Yangzi Dong, Lizhou Cao","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489900","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents the design and evaluation of three bimanual interaction modalities for cross-workspace interaction in virtual reality (VR), in which the user can move items between a personal workspace and a shared workspace. We conducted an empirical study to understand three modalities and their suitability for cross-workspace interaction in VR.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128176543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Veronika Krauß, Florian Jasche, Sheree May Saßmannshausen, Thomas Ludwig, A. Boden
Over the last decades, different kinds of design guides have been created to maintain consistency and usability in interactive system development. However, in the case of spatial applications, practitioners from research and industry either have difficulty finding them or perceive such guides as lacking relevance, practicability, and applicability. This paper presents the current state of scientific research and industry practice by investigating currently used design recommendations for mixed reality (MR) system development. We analyzed and compared 875 design recommendations for MR applications elicited from 89 scientific papers and documentation from six industry practitioners in a literature review. In doing so, we identified differences regarding four key topics: Focus on unique MR design challenges, abstraction regarding devices and ecosystems, level of detail and abstraction of content, and covered topics. Based on that, we contribute to the MR design research by providing three factors for perceived irrelevance and six main implications for design recommendations that are applicable in scientific and industry practice.
{"title":"Research and Practice Recommendations for Mixed Reality Design – Different Perspectives from the Community","authors":"Veronika Krauß, Florian Jasche, Sheree May Saßmannshausen, Thomas Ludwig, A. Boden","doi":"10.1145/3489849.3489876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489876","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decades, different kinds of design guides have been created to maintain consistency and usability in interactive system development. However, in the case of spatial applications, practitioners from research and industry either have difficulty finding them or perceive such guides as lacking relevance, practicability, and applicability. This paper presents the current state of scientific research and industry practice by investigating currently used design recommendations for mixed reality (MR) system development. We analyzed and compared 875 design recommendations for MR applications elicited from 89 scientific papers and documentation from six industry practitioners in a literature review. In doing so, we identified differences regarding four key topics: Focus on unique MR design challenges, abstraction regarding devices and ecosystems, level of detail and abstraction of content, and covered topics. Based on that, we contribute to the MR design research by providing three factors for perceived irrelevance and six main implications for design recommendations that are applicable in scientific and industry practice.","PeriodicalId":345527,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125165808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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