HCI Lessons From PlayStation VR

Habgood, Matthew; Wilson, David M.; Moore, David; Alapont, Sergio

doi:10.1145/3130859.3131437

Cited by 28 publications

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“…Even though our approach includes an automated virtual movement that contradicts the signals from the vestibular system, this does not cause any symptoms. This positive finding is in line with earlier work [27,17], emphasizing the importance of short and fast movements. Additionally, we eliminate any side effects arising from the altered perception in TM by scaling the virtual eye distance accordingly to the body size.…”

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confidence: 93%

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Outstanding: A Multi-Perspective Travel Approach for Virtual Reality Games

Cmentowski

Krekhov

Krüger

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Figure 1. Our proposed navigation technique allows players to switch to a scaled third-person perspective on demand and control a virtual avatar to cover large distances in open world VR scenarios. ABSTRACTIn virtual reality games, players dive into fictional environments and can experience a compelling and immersive world. State-of-the-art VR systems allow for natural and intuitive navigation through physical walking. However, the tracking space is still limited, and viable alternatives are required to reach further virtual destinations. Our work focuses on the exploration of vast open worlds -an area where existing local navigation approaches such as the arc-based teleport are not ideally suited and world-in-miniature techniques potentially reduce presence. We present a novel alternative for open environments: Our idea is to equip players with the ability to switch from first-person to a third-person bird's eye perspective on demand. From above, players can command their avatar and initiate travels over large distance. Our evaluation reveals a significant increase in spatial orientation while avoiding cybersickness and preserving presence, enjoyment, and competence. We summarize our findings in a set of comprehensive design guidelines to help developers integrate our technique.

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confidence: 93%

“…Most non-VR games use joysticks to control the player's avatar. Such approaches involving continuous motion are rarely transferable to VR as they tend to induce cybersickness [17]. Alternatively, VR games can use natural walking [40] to achieve intuitive and presence-preserving navigation.…”

Section: Locomotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Outstanding: A Multi-Perspective Travel Approach for Virtual Reality Games

Cmentowski

Krekhov

Krüger

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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“…A comprehensive review was undertaken of the locomotion techniques employed by existing VR gaming applications [34]. This revealed a single example in which developers had employed rapid continuous movement between closely located nodes instead of teleportation [35].…”

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“…A node-based locomotion technique was iteratively designed and developed, based on the approach used in (parts of) the Batman: Arkham VR game studied in the review [34]. A network of navigation nodes was positioned within the virtual environment, and made visible to the user through floating 'footprint' icons.…”

Section: Rapid Continuous Node-based Locomotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rapid, Continuous Movement Between Nodes as an Accessible Virtual Reality Locomotion Technique

Habgood

Moore

Wilson

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)

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The confounding effect of player locomotion on the vestibuloocular reflex is one of the principal causes of motion sickness in immersive virtual reality. Continuous motion is particularly problematic for stationary user configurations, and teleportation has become the prevailing approach for providing accessible locomotion. Unfortunately, teleportation can also increase disorientation and reduce a player's sense of presence within a VR environment. This paper presents an alternative locomotion technique designed to preserve accessibility while maintaining feelings of presence. This is a node-based navigation system which allows the player to move between predefined node positions using a rapid, continuous, linear motion. An evaluation was undertaken to compare this locomotion technique with commonly used, teleportation-based and continuous walking approaches. Thirty-six participants took part in a study which examined motion sickness and presence for each technique, while navigating around a virtual house using PlayStation VR. Contrary to intuition, we show that rapid movement speeds reduce players' feelings of motion sickness as compared to continuous movement at normal walking speeds.

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“…There are many different forms of locomotion being tested, each with varying results of immersion and motion sickness. In the paper "HCI Lessons From PlayStation VR" [5], multiple locomotion techniques from different Playstation VR games are enumerated and juxtaposed with the rating score of the game. An example of a popular and common locomotion technique is teleportation, which is shown in Figure 1.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Alternative Natural Action Interface for Virtual Reality

Woo¹,

Frost²,

Goffinet³

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EPiC Series in Computing

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The development of affordable virtual reality (VR) hardware represents a keystone of progress in modern software development and human-computer interaction. Despite the ready availability of robust hardware tools, there is presently a lack of video games or software in VR that demonstrates the gamut of unique and novel interfaces a virtual environment can provide. In this paper, we present a virtual reality video game which introduces unique user interface elements that can only be achieved in a 3D virtual environment. The video game, titled Wolf Hunt, provides users with a menu system that innovates on traditional interfaces with a virtual representation of a common item people interact with daily: a mobile phone. Wolf Hunt throws users into a procedurally generated world where they take the role of an individual escaping a wolf assailant. Deviating from traditional locomotion options in VR interfaces, such as teleportation, Wolf Hunt measures the displacement of hand-held VR controllers with the VR headset to simulate the natural action of running. Wolf Hunt provides an alternate interfacing solution for VR systems without having to conform to common 2D interface design schemes.

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HCI Lessons From PlayStation VR

Cited by 28 publications

References 14 publications

Outstanding: A Multi-Perspective Travel Approach for Virtual Reality Games

Outstanding: A Multi-Perspective Travel Approach for Virtual Reality Games

Rapid, Continuous Movement Between Nodes as an Accessible Virtual Reality Locomotion Technique

An Alternative Natural Action Interface for Virtual Reality

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