Coordinated hybrid virtual environments: Seamless interaction contexts for effective virtual reality

Jia, Wei Hua; Lindeman, Robert W.

doi:10.1016/j.cag.2015.02.007

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“…The wonderland builder [10] made use of a pointing device and voice to interact and allow the placement of premade objects in a scene and is focused primarily on children. Wang and Lindeman's work on the DIY World Builder [11] produced a more sophisticated world builder with terrain creation, object placement and manipulation, however, the focus was more on testing different interaction techniques and there was no gameplay or play testing. Work by Moreira [12] looked at world building in VR using voice commands to generate either primitive or premade assets from Google Poly/Sketchfab.…”

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LevelEd VR: A virtual reality level editor and workflow for virtual reality level design

Beever

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John

2020

2020 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)

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Virtual reality entertainment and serious games popularity has continued to rise but the processes for level design for VR games has not been adequately researched. Our paper contributes LevelEd VR; a generic runtime virtual reality level editor that supports the level design workflow used by developers and can potentially support user generated content. We evaluated our LevelEd VR application and compared it to an existing workflow of Unity on a desktop. Our current research indicates that users are accepting of such a system, and it has the potential to be preferred over existing workflows for VR level design. We found that the primary benefit of our system is an improved sense of scale and perspective when creating the geometry and implementing gameplay. The paper also contributes some best practices and lessons learned from creating a complex virtual reality tool, such as LevelEd VR.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

LevelEd VR: A virtual reality level editor and workflow for virtual reality level design

Beever

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John

2020

2020 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)

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“…The proceedings contain several examples of immersive level editing systems [1,6,11,22,24]. Successively, Wang and Lindeman have studied the transition between different interface modalities (e.g., non-occlusive HMD and tablet) in a level-editing task [25]. Mine et al describe the development of a hand-held device allowing immersive modeling in various visualization modalities, such as a CAVE, a large display, and both stereo and non-stereo displays, but not a HMD [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

Inside looking out or outside looking in?

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Higgins

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

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Current Virtual Reality systems only allow users to draw a rectangular perimeter to mark the room-scale area they intend to use. Domestic environments can include furniture and other obstacles that hinder the ease with which users can naturally walk. By leveraging the benefits of passive haptics, users can match physical objects with virtual counterparts, to create substitutional environments. In this paper we explore two visualisation modalities to aid in the creation of a coarse virtual representation of the physical environment, by marking out the volumes of space where physical obstacles are located, to support the substitution process. Our study investigates whether this process is better supported by an inside-looking-out 3D User Interface (that is, viewing the outside world while immersed in Virtual Reality) or from an outside-looking-in one (while viewing the Virtual Environment through an external device, such as a tablet). Results show that the immersive option resulted in better accuracy and was the one with the highest overall preference ratings. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Virtual reality; Interaction techniques;

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“…These interactions are chosen in such a way that they may be used to test user's experience, while manipulating parts of the application. Additionally these interactions are the most widely used in the state of the art research of immersive virtual and augmented reality interactive systems like the ones described by (Steptoe et al, 2014), (Wang and Lindeman, 2014) and (Wang and Lindeman, 2015). These interactions are divided into inside and outside interactions, depending on which view they suit -the first person one or the bird's eye one.…”

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“…This can be achieved by implementing a virtual reality system, that uses a combination of multiple points of view and interaction possibilities. Such systems are demonstrated in (Wang and Lindeman, 2014) and (Wang and Lindeman, 2015), where multiple points of view and methods of interaction ensure a smooth workflow and interactions for users. This paper introduces a novel approach based on this type of hybrid virtual environment system, which uses a mixed reality visualization.…”

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Inside - Outside Model Viewing - A Low-cost Hybrid Approach to Visualization and Demonstration of 3D Models

Nikolov

2016

Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

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Coordinated hybrid virtual environments: Seamless interaction contexts for effective virtual reality

Cited by 21 publications

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LevelEd VR: A virtual reality level editor and workflow for virtual reality level design

LevelEd VR: A virtual reality level editor and workflow for virtual reality level design

Inside looking out or outside looking in?

Inside - Outside Model Viewing - A Low-cost Hybrid Approach to Visualization and Demonstration of 3D Models

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