Experiencing and Navigating Virtual Reality without Sight (The all-seeING ears)

Wolf, Mario; Trentsios, Pascalis; Urbanietz, Christoph; Enzner, Gerald

doi:10.1109/vrw50115.2020.00114

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“…Focusing on blindness simulation experiences, both commercial and academic works have been implemented recently in Virtual Reality (VR), such as an immersive documentary 2 , games 3 and VR experiences [17] [24]. In contrast to these works, the current application focuses on providing the player with a Mixed Reality approach, being set on an actual kitchen environment, with passive haptics, spatial audio localization cues and speech recognition for every interactive object in the game.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cooking in the dark: a mixed reality empathy experience for the embodiment of blindness

Guarese

Bastidas

Becker

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 1st XR in Games Workshop (XR in Games 2021)

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In the context of promoting a sense of empathy for the difference in people without disabilities, we propose a gaming experience that allows users to embody having a visual impairment. By occluding the user’s vision and providing spatialized audio and passive haptic feedback, allied with a speech recognition digital assistant, our goal is to offer a multi-sensory experience to enhance the user’s sense of embodiment inside a mixed reality blindness simulation. Inside the game environment, while expecting a guest to arrive, the player is required to cook a meal completely in the dark. Being aided solely by their remaining senses and a digital assistant, players must go through several tasks as to prepare dinner in time, risking to lose a love interest.

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confidence: 99%