Correlation between Game Experience and Presence in immersive virtual reality games

Does virtual threat harm VR experience?: Impact of threat occurrence and repeatability on virtual embodiment and threat response

“…Furthermore, while no correlation was found between agency and game experience in this paper, such user characteristics appeared positively correlated to the sense of ownership, reinvigorating the need to explore how game experience may influence users' SoE in VR. Finally, our results also highlighted a small effect of gender on the sense of agency, which corroborate previous works' findings on the influence of gender on the SoE [41].…”

“…The potential influence of users' game experience of the way they perceive several entities of virtual environments is becoming more and more studied in latest works. The sense of presence in immersive VR was found to be positively correlated with users' game experience [41], while the sense of agency towards a virtual avatar was found to be positively correlated with game experience. In this study, we found that participants with high game experience seemed less likely to experience fear towards the virtual threat, although it is a very small effect.…”