A Step Back from Reality: Sound and Presence in Computer Games and Other Worlds

Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mark; Fritsch, Melanie; Summers, Tim

doi:10.1017/9781108670289.017

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“…There are several issues to do with this approach to attaining presence including the limitations of technology in emulating the sensations of the world in all their potential. However, as the purpose of our sensory apparatus is to filter externality and to direct attention to certain aspects of it while creating the conditions for presence in externality [22], it becomes apparent that the more-ismore approach is the wrong approach. Rather, we would argue, focus on reducing technologically derived sensation in virtual worlds (thereby freeing up processing power for other tasks) in favour of fine-tuning our perceptual environments by designing such worlds in accord with our fundamental filtering of externality and crossmodal perception.…”

Section: Presence In Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Don't extend! reduce!

Walther-Hansen

Grimshaw-Aagaard

2020

Proceedings of the 15th International Audio Mostly Conference

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In this paper we propose a reduced reality concept of less-is-more that VR designers can use to create technological frameworks that reduce sensory overload and allow for better concentration and focus, less stress, and novel scenarios. We question the approach taken by scholars in the field of XR research, where the focus is typically to design and use technology that adds sensory information to the user's perceptual field and we address some of the confusion related to the typical uses of the term reality. To address the latter terminological muddle, we define reality as our conscious experience of the environment as emergent perception and we use this definition as the basis for a discussion of the role of sound in balancing sensory information and in the construction of a less cluttered and less stressful perceptual environments.

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Section: Presence In Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%