BirdQuestVR: a cross-platform asymmetric communication game

10.32920/ryerson.14655378.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Smilovitch

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Mobile Device ◽

Physical Space ◽

Social Play ◽

Play Session ◽

Widespread Adoption ◽

Asymmetric Communication ◽

Cross Platform

BirdQuestVR is a cross-platform asymmetric communication game between one player in Virtual Reality and another on a mobile device. The game explores asymmetric co-operative gaming in a shared physical space, taking the physical surroundings of the VR user into account in its design. Asymmetric games feature different rules, abilities, or objectives for different players, generating unique and nuanced game experiences. Multiplayer asymmetric games in particular have been shown to increase teamwork and a collaborative mindset even after a play session has ended. Asymmetric design is commonplace in both digital and analog games but has yet to see widespread adoption in the emerging Virtual Reality (VR) gaming space. BirdQuestVR seeks to leverage the affordances of current consumer-grade VR headsets to build asymmetric gameplay around communication, embodied performance, and physical humour. Keywords: Asymmetric, Virtual Reality, Cross-Platform, Social Play, Avatar Embodiment

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Rear-Seat Productivity in Virtual Reality: Investigating VR Interaction in the Confined Space of a Car

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction ◽

10.3390/mti5040015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 15

Author(s):

Jingyi Li ◽

Ceenu George ◽

Andrea Ngao ◽

Kai Holländer ◽

Stefan Mayer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Virtual Environment ◽

Physical Space ◽

Rear Seat ◽

Virtual Space ◽

Future Research ◽

Confined Space ◽

Physical Restraints ◽

Working Environments ◽

Research And Design

Ubiquitous technology lets us work in flexible and decentralised ways. Passengers can already use travel time to be productive, and we envision even better performance and experience in vehicles with emerging technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) headsets. However, the confined physical space constrains interactions while the virtual space may be conceptually borderless. We therefore conducted a VR study (N = 33) to examine the influence of physical restraints and virtual working environments on performance, presence, and the feeling of safety. Our findings show that virtual borders make passengers touch the car interior less, while performance and presence are comparable across conditions. Although passengers prefer a secluded and unlimited virtual environment (nature), they are more productive in a shared and limited one (office). We further discuss choices for virtual borders and environments, social experience, and safety responsiveness. Our work highlights opportunities and challenges for future research and design of rear-seat VR interaction.

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Low-Asymmetry Interface for Multiuser VR Experiences with Both HMD and Non-HMD Users

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21020397 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 397

Author(s):

Qimeng Zhang ◽

Ji-Su Ban ◽

Mingyu Kim ◽

Hae Won Byun ◽

Chang-Hun Kim

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Virtual Environment ◽

Mobile Device ◽

User Satisfaction ◽

Virtual World ◽

User Study ◽

Visual Display ◽

Point Of View ◽

Head Mounted Display ◽

And Behavior

We propose a low-asymmetry interface to improve the presence of non-head-mounted-display (non-HMD) users in shared virtual reality (VR) experiences with HMD users. The low-asymmetry interface ensures that the HMD and non-HMD users’ perception of the VR environment is almost similar. That is, the point-of-view asymmetry and behavior asymmetry between HMD and non-HMD users are reduced. Our system comprises a portable mobile device as a visual display to provide a changing PoV for the non-HMD user and a walking simulator as an in-place walking detection sensor to enable the same level of realistic and unrestricted physical-walking-based locomotion for all users. Because this allows non-HMD users to experience the same level of visualization and free movement as HMD users, both of them can engage as the main actors in movement scenarios. Our user study revealed that the low-asymmetry interface enables non-HMD users to feel a presence similar to that of the HMD users when performing equivalent locomotion tasks in a virtual environment. Furthermore, our system can enable one HMD user and multiple non-HMD users to participate together in a virtual world; moreover, our experiments show that the non-HMD user satisfaction increases with the number of non-HMD participants owing to increased presence and enjoyment.

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The Study on Integration between General Mobile Device and Desktop Virtual Reality System

Communications in Computer and Information Science - System Simulation and Scientific Computing ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-34396-4_19 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 160-167

Author(s):

Meng Wang ◽

Binjie Xu ◽

Zhenggong Han ◽

Dekun Chen

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Mobile Device ◽

Virtual Reality System ◽

Desktop Virtual Reality

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The Dynamics of Employee Relationships in a Digitalized Workplace

Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development - Critical Issues on Changing Dynamics in Employee Relations and Workforce Diversity ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3515-8.ch010 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 175-205

Author(s):

Tanusree Chakraborty ◽

Malabika Tripathi ◽

Somrita Saha

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Special Reference ◽

Work Environment ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Physical Space ◽

Employee Relations ◽

Media Richness ◽

Work Culture ◽

Media Richness Theory ◽

Employee Relationships

Employees of this day are not confined only to the physical space that they occupy during office hours. Today's workstations are connected environments ensuring instant access to other employees and anything that employees need for work which goes beyond any communication barriers and as a result is changing employee experiences to better engaged, innovative, and efficient ones. All these changes have given way to alterations in employee interrelation dynamics within the boundaries of technological environments. The chapter leads to an understanding of how today's work culture has changed, what the digitized workplace looks like, the where and how of task-technology fits, and the model of interpersonal relationships. The chapter also talks about the related implications of media richness theory at workplace with special reference to digitized work environment and virtual reality. Further, the chapter brings in the challenges of cyberloafing and phubbing as consequences of the digitized workplace and how those affect performance and employee relations.

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Virtual reality in lighting research: Comparing physical and virtual lighting environments

Lighting Research and Technology ◽

10.1177/1477153518825387 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (6) ◽

pp. 820-837 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Y Chen ◽

Z Cui ◽

L Hao

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Human Subjects ◽

Physical Space ◽

Alternative Media ◽

Subjective Rating ◽

Subjective Feeling ◽

Physical Test ◽

Photographic Reproduction ◽

The Media ◽

Lighting Environment

In the study of lighting, as the construction of a physical test room is costly and time-consuming, researchers have been actively looking for alternative media to present physical environments. Virtual reality, photo and video are the most commonly used approaches in the lighting community, and they have all been used by researchers around the world. Most such studies have been conducted without discussing what gives the subjects a better sense of realism, presence, etc., and which type of media is closer to the ideal, the physical lighting environment. In this paper, we aim to select the optimal alternative media that can present physical lighting environments. We compare a human’s subjective feeling towards a physical lighting environment and three alternative reproduction technologies, namely, virtual reality reproduction, video reproduction and photographic reproduction. We also discuss the feasibility of using virtual reality in representing lighting environments. The selection of the most optimal media is based on the perceptual attributes of lighted space, and the findings are only related to these criteria. The main results of this study are the following: (a) The order of the overall presentation-ability of the media is physical space > virtual reality reproductions > video reproductions > photo reproductions. (b) In terms of subjective rating, virtual reality lighting environments are rated closest to the physical lighting environments, and the order of the approximate coefficient of the media is physical space (1) > VR reproductions (0.886) > video reproductions (0.752) > photo reproductions (0.679). (c) Virtual reality can present lighting attributes of open/close, diffuse/glaring, bright/dim and noisy/quiet consistent with the physical environment. (d) Human subjects are most satisfied with VR reproductions.

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Immersive Virtual Reality Beyond Available Physical Space

Advances in Human Factors in Wearable Technologies and Game Design - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-20476-1_32 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 315-324

Author(s):

Nicholas Caporusso ◽

Gordon Carlson ◽

Meng Ding ◽

Peng Zhang

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Physical Space ◽

Immersive Virtual Reality

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A Virtual Reality Soldier Simulator with Body Area Networks for Team Training

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19030451 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 451 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Yun-Chieh Fan ◽

Chih-Yu Wen

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Physical Space ◽

Body Area Networks ◽

Simulation System ◽

Training Data ◽

Training Process ◽

Body Movements ◽

Body Area ◽

Training Strategy ◽

Military Tactics

Soldier-based simulators have been attracting increased attention recently, with the aim of making complex military tactics more effective, such that soldiers are able to respond rapidly and logically to battlespace situations and the commander’s decisions in the battlefield. Moreover, body area networks (BANs) can be applied to collect the training data in order to provide greater access to soldiers’ physical actions or postures as they occur in real routine training. Therefore, due to the limited physical space of training facilities, an efficient soldier-based training strategy is proposed that integrates a virtual reality (VR) simulation system with a BAN, which can capture body movements such as walking, running, shooting, and crouching in a virtual environment. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed VR simulation system is able to provide complete and substantial information throughout the training process, including detection, estimation, and monitoring capabilities.

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