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How to Reduce the Effort: Comfortable Watching Techniques for Cinematic Virtual Reality

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Arne Fahrenwalde,

Heinrich HußmannAuthors Info & Claims

Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics: 7th International Conference, AVR 2020, Lecce, Italy, September 7–10, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

Pages 3 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58465-8_1

Published: 07 September 2020 Publication History

Abstract

When watching omnidirectional movies with Head-Mounted Displays, viewers can freely choose the direction of view, and thus the visible section of the movie. However, looking around all the time can be exhausting and having content in the full 360° area can cause the fear to miss something. For making watching more comfortable, we implemented new methods and conducted three experiments: (1) exploring methods to inspect the full omnidirectional area by moving the head, but not the whole body; (2) comparing head, body and movie rotation and (3) studying how the reduction of the 360° area influences the viewing experience. For (3), we compared the user behavior watching a full 360°, a 225° and a 180° movie via HMD. The investigated techniques for inspecting the full 360° area in a fixed sitting position (experiments 1 and 2) perform well and could replace the often-used swivel chair. Reducing the 360° area (experiment 3), 225° movies resulted in a better score than 180° movies.

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Yu ZLo CYang GLiang H(2024)Rethinking Defaults: Examining the Effects of Default Camera Height and Angle on Embodied Presence in Cinematic Virtual RealityCross-Cultural Design10.1007/978-3-031-60913-8_7(86-96)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-60913-8_7

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How to Reduce the Effort: Comfortable Watching Techniques for Cinematic Virtual Reality
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
      2. Virtual reality

Index terms have been assigned to the content through auto-classification.

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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics: 7th International Conference, AVR 2020, Lecce, Italy, September 7–10, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

Sep 2020

488 pages

ISBN:978-3-030-58464-1

DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-58465-8

Editors:
Lucio Tommaso De Paolis
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
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Patrick Bourdot
University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

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Yu ZLo CYang GLiang H(2024)Rethinking Defaults: Examining the Effects of Default Camera Height and Angle on Embodied Presence in Cinematic Virtual RealityCross-Cultural Design10.1007/978-3-031-60913-8_7(86-96)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-60913-8_7

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