Audio-first VR: New perspectives on musical experiences in virtual environments

Çamcı, Anıl; Hamilton, Rob

doi:10.1080/09298215.2019.1707234

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“…The second concert focused on the concept of presence by dividing the audience into three groups, namely, a group watching a normal livestream, another watching a livestream with Youtube’s 360° option, and a group watching with a virtual reality (VR) headset. The ability to feel present inside a digital world (e.g., as if the computer interface disappears) has received increasing interest from researchers ( Västfjäll, 2003 ; Sanchez-Vives and Slater, 2005 ; Riva et al, 2007 ; Takatalo et al, 2008 ; Slater et al, 2009 ; Glowinski et al, 2015 ; Çamcı and Hamilton, 2020 ). While a connection between presence and togetherness has been theorized before ( Durlach and Slater, 2000 ), the aim of the current study was to investigate how feelings of presence contribute to feeling socially connected during a livestreamed concert.…”

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Livestream Experiments: The Role of COVID-19, Agency, Presence, and Social Context in Facilitating Social Connectedness

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Musical life became disrupted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many musicians and venues turned to online alternatives, such as livestreaming. In this study, three livestreamed concerts were organized to examine separate, yet interconnected concepts—agency, presence, and social context—to ascertain which components of livestreamed concerts facilitate social connectedness. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling was conducted on 83 complete responses to examine the effects of the manipulations on feelings of social connectedness with the artist and the audience. Results showed that in concert 1, where half of the participants were allowed to vote for the final song to be played, this option did not result in the experience of more agency. Instead, if their preferred song was played (regardless of voting ability) participants experienced greater connectedness to the artist. In concert 2, participants who attended the concert with virtual reality headsets experienced greater feelings of physical presence, as well as greater feelings of connectedness with the artist, than those that viewed a normal YouTube livestream. In concert 3, attendance through Zoom led to greater experience of social presence, but predicted less connectedness with the artist, compared to a normal YouTube livestream. Crucially, a greater negative impact of COVID-19 (e.g., loneliness) predicted feelings of connectedness with the artist, possibly because participants fulfilled their social needs with this parasocial interaction. Examining data from all concerts suggested that physical presence was a predictor of connectedness with both the artist and the audience, while social presence only predicted connectedness with the audience. Correlational analyses revealed that reductions in loneliness and isolation were associated with feelings of shared agency, physical and social presence, and connectedness to the audience. Overall, the findings suggest that in order to reduce feelings of loneliness and increase connectedness, concert organizers and musicians could tune elements of their livestreams to facilitate feelings of physical and social presence.

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“…Among multimodal XR experiences, there are those that privilege music and sound, either conceptually or functionally. We have previously referred to these as "Audio-First" experiences [34]. These kinds of audio-centric or audio-first XR works closely align with the definitions of Musical XR that this paper explores.…”

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“…Berthaut reviewed existing 3D interaction techniques and examined how they can be used for musical control [14]. Atherton and Wang devised an overview of recent musical works that employ the VR medium [4], while Çamcı and Hamilton identified research trends in this field through a set of workshops that focus on Audio-first VR [34].…”

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“…As highlighted by Çamcı and Hamilton, there is a need for more accessible tools capable of facilitating novel learning experiences for inexperienced users who wish to utilize immersive audio as a medium for artistic expression [34]. Current VR authoring models, in which the design and review stages are often separated, can hinder the learning process [32].…”

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“…The application of XR technology to the composition, consumption and analysis of music has been explored both as a means to reproduce or extend existing models of musical expression and creativity, as well as a means to construct novel musical instruments and experiences that could not exist within a purely "real" context. This creates unique opportunities for musical interaction design, wherein musical interfaces can be liberated from physical constraints and user input can be mapped to sound via arbitrarily defined mechanics underlying a Musical XR system [34]. This way, XR can evoke levels of abstraction, immersion, and imagination not possible with conventional musical interfaces, ushering in entirely new ways of engaging with music for both the performer and the listener.…”

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Audio-first VR: New perspectives on musical experiences in virtual environments

Cited by 18 publications

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Livestream Experiments: The Role of COVID-19, Agency, Presence, and Social Context in Facilitating Social Connectedness

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