What a Decade of Experiments Reveals about Factors that Influence the Sense of Presence: Latest Findings

Youngblut, Christine

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“…Witmer and Singer have done extensive research on measuring presence and immersion 11 . Their questionnaires have gone through multiple iterations and been used in countless studies 14 . Due to the accepted nature of the Witmer and Singer measures of immersion and presence the authors decided to utilize the method to measure the effectiveness of the game day application across multiple platforms.…”

Section: Immersion and Presence In Virtual Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Game-day football visualization experience on dissimilar virtual reality platforms

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College football recruiting is a competitive process. Athletic administrations attempt to gain an edge by bringing recruits to a home game, highlighting the atmosphere unique to campus. This is however not always possible since most recruiting efforts happen off-season. So, they relate the football game experience through video recordings and visits to football facilities. While these substitutes provide a general idea of a game, they cannot capture the feeling of playing while cheered on by a crowd of 55,000 people. To address this challenge and improve the recruitment process, the Iowa State University (ISU) athletic department and the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) teamed up to build an alternative to the game-day experience using the world's highest resolution six-sided virtual reality (VR) environment -the C6, and a portable low-cost headmounted display (HMD) system. This paper presents techniques used in the development of the immersive and portable VR environments followed by validation of the work through quantifying immersion and presence through a formal user study. Results from the user study indicate that both the HMD and C6 are an improvement over the standard practice of showing videos to convey the atmosphere of an ISU Cyclone football game. In addition, both the C6 and HMD were scored similar in immersion and presence categories. This indicates that the low-cost portable HMD version of the application produces minimal trade off in experience for a fraction of the cost. RightsCopyright 2015 SPIE-IS&T. One print of electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic electronic or print reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. ABSTRACTCollege football recruiting is a competitive process. Athletic administrations attempt to gain an edge by bringing recruits to a home game, highlighting the atmosphere unique to campus. This is however not always possible since most recruiting efforts happen off-season. So, they relate the football game experience through video recordings and visits to football facilities. While these substitutes provide a general idea of a game, they cannot capture the feeling of playing while cheered on by a crowd of 55,000 people. To address this challenge and improve the recruitment process, the Iowa State University (ISU) athletic department and the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) teamed up to build an alternative to the game-day experience using the world's highest resolution six-sided virtual reality (VR) environmentthe C6, and a portable low-cost head-mounted display (HMD) system. This paper presents techniques used in the development of the immersive and portable VR environments followed by validation of the work through quantifying immersion and presence through a formal user study. Results from the user study indicate that both the HMD and C6 are an improvement over the standard practice of showing videos...

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Section: Immersion and Presence In Virtual Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Game-day football visualization experience on dissimilar virtual reality platforms

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“…It was concluded that a highly detailed scene and a larger FOV have higher effect on the sense of presence. Indeed, there seems to be no doubt if FOV enlargement promotes higher sense of presence from existing and usual screens but it has already been realized [18] that there must be a point at which further enlargement is redundant.…”

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“…This kind of measuring does not require the user's knowledge of the meaning of presence. It is not widespread and usually there is an associated subjective measure altogether [10] [18]. The subjective way depends on the conviction users have about presence because they will respond in different ways to how they thinks about themselves being present.…”

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A comparative study on aspects that influence the sense of presence in virtual environments

Hounsell

Kemczinski

Schlindwein

2013

Revista Brasileira De Computação Aplicada

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Resumo: Um dos objetivos e vantagens da Realidade Virtual é a promoção da sensação de "estar lá", de estar presente. As pesquisas existentes focaram em determinar "se" um fator contribui para o senso de presença. Este artigo compara dois sistemas de visualização, avaliando qual dos dois contribui mais para este senso. Dois sistemas de baixo custo e baixa tecnologia foram usados: estereoscopia anáglifa e campo de visão (FOV) largo (50º). O Questionário SUS foi aplicado a 63 participantes para avaliar o senso de presença. Os participantes foram divididos em dois grupos, num experimento intra-sujeitos seguido de um inter-sujeitos, assistiram a um passeio guiado em um campus universitário virtual. Ambos os sistemas contribuíram para aumentar o senso de presença. O aumento do FOV foi melhor para lembrar do lugar visitado enquanto a estereoscopia foi melhor em tornar o ambiente mais realista. Entretanto, percebeu-se que a estereoscopia anáglifa não pode ser usada sempre. Em termos gerais, os dados mostram que a estereoscopia anáglifa contribui mais que um FOV largo para o senso de presença. Concluímos sugerindo que o primeiro passo para aumentar a imersão de um Ambiente Virtual deva ser o uso de estereoscopia, nem que seja a anáglifa, se for apropriado.Palavras-chave: Campo de visão. Estereoscopia. Presença. Realidade virtual. Abstract: An objective and advantage of Virtual Reality is to promote the sense of "being there", to be present. Most existing research in this field is focused on determining "if" a given factor

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“…Sadowski and Stanney [22] summarized seven factors contributing to the feeling of presence, and additional empirical evidences were provided by Youngblut [28]. These factors are summarized in Table 1.…”

Section: Exposure With Virtual Realitymentioning

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Description of a Treatment Manual for in virtuo Exposure with Specific Phobia

Bouchard¹,

Robillard²,

Larouche³

et al. 2012

Virtual Reality in Psychological, Medical and Pedagogical Applications

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What a Decade of Experiments Reveals about Factors that Influence the Sense of Presence: Latest Findings

Cited by 22 publications

References 21 publications

Game-day football visualization experience on dissimilar virtual reality platforms

Game-day football visualization experience on dissimilar virtual reality platforms

A comparative study on aspects that influence the sense of presence in virtual environments

Description of a Treatment Manual for in virtuo Exposure with Specific Phobia

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