Towards balancing VR immersion and bystander awareness

• Main Authors: KUDO, Yoshiki, TANG, Anthony, FUJITA, Kazuyuki, ENDO, Isamu, TAKASHIMA, Kazuki, KITAMURA, Yoshifumi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: hmd boundary; informal awareness; virtual reality; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7930; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8933/viewcontent/3486950_pvoa_cc_by.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) increase immersion into virtual worlds. The problem is that this limits headset users' awareness of bystanders: headset users cannot attend to bystanders' presence and activities. We call this the HMD boundary. We explore how to make the HMD boundary permeable...