Experiential Virtual Urban Environments:  a Preliminary Investigation

Ghani, Izham; Rahman, Nurur; Nayan, Nadiyanti Mat; Bahaluddin, Azrul

doi:10.21837/pmjournal.v16.i5.408

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“…The emotional dimension is therefore a result of the other two dimensions; the behavioural and the cognitive. (Ghani et al 2018). The heterogeneous spatial structure and the abundance of green open spaces in the TiB provides great potential for people to strengthen their relationship with the natural environment and participate in various kinds of stewardship activities such as restoration, cleaning, and maintenance activities.…”

Section: Sense Of Placementioning

confidence: 99%

In-Between Nature: Reconsidering Design Practices for Territories In-Between from a Social-Ecological Perspective

Brink

Rooij

Tillie

2022

Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes

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During past decades, Territories in-Between (TiB) have gained increased attention among researchers in the field of urban planning and design. TiB are often considered to be underused, lack spatial quality and are under mounting pressure of urban densification. However, the rich diversity of land uses and abundance of semiopen spaces in the TiB provide unique habitats and social-ecological potentials, different from exclusively urban or rural landscapes. Therefore, urban planners and designers should reconsider conventional planning and design approaches towards these kinds of territories. The objective of this paper is to present a holistic planning and design approach towards TiB which acknowledges and strengthens its unique social-ecological potentials on local and regional scales. The new spatial planning concept that was developed through a 'research-by-design' process is called: The Recovering Membrane. This concept was developed for the city of Rotterdam. The Recovering Membrane is defined as a spatial layer of interaction between two distinctive living environments -urban and rural -and various human and non-human actors in them. The research puts forward that design for the TiB should consider the urban fringe as a distinctive kind of TiB with unique social-ecological potentials. Moreover, spatial design should strengthen existing spatial qualities of the TiB, to protect its pressured, yet highly valuable, characteristics. Additionally, local nature-based interventions can provide an important tool for placemaking in the TiB, especially when integrated with long-term and large-scale area transformations.

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Section: Sense Of Placementioning

confidence: 99%

In-Between Nature: Reconsidering Design Practices for Territories In-Between from a Social-Ecological Perspective

Brink

Rooij

Tillie

2022

Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes

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“…Schnabel (2004) focuses on how VR can improve spatial understanding. Ghani et al (2018) have identified six key elements required for creating an effective VR experience for architectural and urban models: 1) contextual setting, 2) interactivity, 3) navigation, 4) level of detail (LOD), 5) viewpoints, and 6) auditory environment. Kim and Kim (2019) use VR as a way of evaluating urban spaces, exploring the ratio of the depth-to-height of virtual models of urban spaces.…”

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VR Panoramas - Visualizing urban context using 360 spherical images

Janssen¹,

Bui²

2022

eCAADe Proceedings

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VR photography is the interactive viewing of panoramic photographs using a 360° spherical view. This paper focuses on the use of VR photographs of the urban environment to improve spatial understanding. These photographs can be embedded into a modelling environment as a set of VR panorama hotspots. When users navigate to one of these hotspots, they are able to see how their proposed building or structure relates to the visually detailed view of the urban context. The proposed approach has been implemented in a parametric modelling application called Möbius Modeller. To demonstrate the power of immersive VR, a series of example models are presented that include VR panorama hotspots.

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“…To unleash the full potential of the Metaverse, besides the 3D representation and digitization of the urban space, further components are required. Ghani et al (2018) consider interactivity, contextual setting, and auditory capabilities among the elements required for an experiential virtual urban environment. Ning et al (2021) deem the interactivity, in particular, as one of the open issues in the Metaverse domain.…”

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An empirical evaluation of enhanced teleportation for navigating large urban immersive virtual environments

Badr

Amicis

2023

Front. Virtual Real.

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Navigation is the most prevalent interaction in large urban virtual environments (VEs). Any Metaverse application that foresees navigating or exploring virtual cities requires an effective and efficient navigation technique. These environments, however, have distinct characteristics that make the navigation more challenging and the design of the interactions more critical. We have conducted an empirical study to assess how enhancing the teleportation technique with additional capabilities affects the performance of navigating large urban VEs. For this purpose, three interactions have been developed that extend the conventional point-and-click teleportation. The first one is named Mini-Map and provides a top-down view of the user’s surroundings. Portal Preview provides a preview of the selected target location and allows users to choose their desired orientation at that location. The last technique, called X-Ray Vision, makes the buildings around the user translucent and allows teleporting to locations that would otherwise be obscured. A within-subject controlled lab study with twenty five participants has been conducted, where each extension is evaluated individually as well as in combination with others. Our results show that extending the teleportation can significantly improve its performance when navigating large urban VEs. Overall, the X-Ray Vision was the most successful extension with respect to both task metrics and usability measures. Mini-Map was able to improve some of the task metrics, but did not have a significant effect on most self-reported measures. Portal Preview was the least effective extension, however, multiple participants liked the fact that they could define their desired orientation with the controller. Combining all interactions together performed well with respect to the task metrics, but this option was not favored by the participants. Extending the teleportation with X-Ray Vision and Mini-Map was by far the most favored option.

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Experiential Virtual Urban Environments: a Preliminary Investigation

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

In-Between Nature: Reconsidering Design Practices for Territories In-Between from a Social-Ecological Perspective

In-Between Nature: Reconsidering Design Practices for Territories In-Between from a Social-Ecological Perspective

VR Panoramas - Visualizing urban context using 360 spherical images

An empirical evaluation of enhanced teleportation for navigating large urban immersive virtual environments

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