Reading text in an immersive head-mounted display

Grout, Cameron; Rogers, William J.; Apperley, Mark; Jones, Steve

doi:10.1145/2808047.2808055

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“…Studies have explored issues with readability in Mixed Reality (MR) environments. While reading in virtual monitors has been shown to be feasible (Grout et al, 2015;Pavanatto et al, 2021), large flat monitors were reported to impair readability (Grout et al, 2015). It has been suggested that text displayed on virtual elements should be displayed larger than on physical monitors (Dittrich et al, 2013;Pavanatto et al, 2021), although that can lead to reduced performance due to small FOVs (Pavanatto et al, 2021).…”

Section: Readability In Mixed Realitymentioning

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Virtual monitors vs. physical monitors: an empirical comparison for productivity work

Pavanatto,

Davari,

Badea

et al. 2023

Front. Virtual Real.

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Virtual monitors can display information through a head-worn display when a physical monitor is unavailable or provides insufficient space. Low resolution and restricted field of view are common issues of these displays. Such issues reduce readability and peripheral vision, leading to increased head movement when we increase the display size. This work evaluates the performance and user experience of a virtual monitor setup that combines software designed to minimize graphical transformations and a high-resolution virtual reality head-worn display. Participants performed productivity work across three approaches: Workstation, which is often used at office locations and consists of three side-by-side physical monitors; Laptop, which is often used in mobile locations and consists of a single physical monitor expanded with multiple desktops; and Virtual, our prototype with three side-by-side virtual monitors. Results show that participants deemed Virtual faster, easier to use, and more intuitive than Laptop, evidencing the advantages of head and eye glances over full content switches. They also confirm the existence of a gap between Workstation and Virtual, as Workstation achieved the highest user experience. We conclude with design guidelines obtained from the lessons learned in this study.

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Section: Readability In Mixed Realitymentioning

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Virtual monitors vs. physical monitors: an empirical comparison for productivity work

Pavanatto,

Davari,

Badea

et al. 2023

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…Previous work investigated various visual attributes of text presentation in virtual environments. Conducting a study about presenting desktop interfaces inside an immersive virtual environment, Grout et al [15] showed that users can achieve traditional reading tasks in an immersive virtual environment with a near-real-world performance. Comparing diferent output media, Dittrich et al [11] suggest that text in a 3D virtual environment should be displayed larger than on a 2D display.…”

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Reading in VR: The Effect of Text Presentation Type and Location

Rzayev

Ugnivenko

Graf

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Reading is a fundamental activity to obtain information both in the real and the digital world. Virtual reality (VR) allows novel approaches for users to view, read, and interact with a text. However, for efcient reading, it is necessary to understand how a text should be displayed in VR without impairing the VR experience. Therefore, we conducted a study with 18 participants to investigate text presentation type and location in VR. We compared world-fxed, edge-fxed, and head-fxed text locations. Texts were displayed using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) or as a paragraph. We found that RSVP is a promising presentation type for reading short texts displayed in edge-fxed or head-fxed location in VR. The paragraph presentation type using world-fxed or edge-fxed location is promising for reading long text if movement in the virtual environment is not required. Insights from our study inform the design of reading interfaces for VR applications. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → User studies; Virtual reality.

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Aligning content rendering resolution and feature size with display capability in near‐eye display systems

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In order to create a satisfying experience with near‐eye displays, the content must be adapted to be legible on the display used. New displays are using subpixel arrangements that can limit the minimum resolvable feature size to something greater than with the conventional RGB stripe arrangement. We conducted an experiment to measure the minimum and preferred size of text in two virtual reality (VR) displays systems and find that the text size is display limited. We then measure several displays with different pixel arrangements to determine whether the subpixel arrangement could impact legibility. We propose several Fourier metrics that can be computed from the measured data to categorize the capability of the display and describe a framework for selecting the appropriate content from a set of discrete tiers.

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Reading text in an immersive head-mounted display

Cited by 25 publications

References 8 publications

Virtual monitors vs. physical monitors: an empirical comparison for productivity work

Virtual monitors vs. physical monitors: an empirical comparison for productivity work

Reading in VR: The Effect of Text Presentation Type and Location

Aligning content rendering resolution and feature size with display capability in near‐eye display systems

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