Virtual reality learning environments: potentials and challenges

Bricken, Meredith

doi:10.1145/126640.126657

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“…Virtual reality has been the subject of academic study for several decades [1,2], yet the field is still wrestling with the issue of "cybersickness" and its relationship to locomotion in virtual environments [3]. It is particularly difficult to resolve given the wide range of individual differences observed in both susceptibility and symptoms [4].…”

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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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Section: Introductionmentioning

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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“…Virtual reality environments are equipped with certain features -such as the ability to facilitate shared experiences, encourage natural user interaction and enable unique learning experiences to meet individuals' needs -that make them suitable for learning [4]. Three challenges to the adoption of virtual reality for education are identified in [4]: cost, usability and fears of the technology.…”

Section: Related Work: Virtual and Augmented Reality For Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Three challenges to the adoption of virtual reality for education are identified in [4]: cost, usability and fears of the technology. These challenges posed significant drawbacks to the adoption of virtual reality in the early 90's (and before).…”

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Virtual Reality for Early Education: A Study

Fabola

Miller

2016

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. This paper investigates the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as a tool for cultural heritage learning, using St Andrews Cathedral as the subject matter. As part of a module focused on local history, first year secondary school pupils in a school in the town of St Andrews took part in virtual tours of the Cathedral as it stood in the 14 th Century using the Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, computer screen and Xbox controller, and answered questions aimed to elicit their experiences with the various systems. The system design and implementation is presented and the findings, observations and lessons learnt from the study are discussed.

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“…Bricken, (1991) stated that VR, among other characteristics, is experiential, allows natural interaction with information, allows unique capabilities, a shared experience, and can be tailored to individuals.…”

Section: Virtual Reality (Vr): the Precursors To Second Lifementioning

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“…A user is both physically and perceptually involved in the experience; he/she feels a sense of presence within a virtual world. They are disposed to entirely new capabilities, such as the ability to fly through the virtual world, occupying any object as a virtual body to observe the environment from different perspectives (Bricken, 1991). This is evident with Second Life which allows the user to create a 3D version of himself as earlier mention in section 1.0, which he controls from the real world with peripheral devices such as mouse, keyboard, etc.…”

Section: Virtual Reality (Vr): the Precursors To Second Lifementioning

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Linden Labs Second Life: Understanding the Business Model and Sources of Commercial and Social Success or Decline of Second Life

Williams¹,

Eyo²,

Akpan³

2011

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The online virtual world, Second Life, has been described by its developers, Linden Lab, as a 'free' online Virtual reality application with which residents (users) can imagine and create their respective virtual worlds. The degree of 'freedom' of use of Second Life by residents as described by the developers comes into question as it would rather imply that it is a charity-based online application; therefore, creating a lacuna as to how its existence is being sustained. This paper discusses the business model of Second Life as it affects its potential sources of commercial and social success and decline, and we have skewed our discourse more to the potential sources of decline than that of success, with some solutions offered along the lines.

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Virtual reality learning environments: potentials and challenges

Cited by 169 publications

References 7 publications

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

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

Virtual Reality for Early Education: A Study

Linden Labs Second Life: Understanding the Business Model and Sources of Commercial and Social Success or Decline of Second Life

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