There Is No First- or Third-Person View in Virtual Reality: Understanding the Perspective Continuum
Paper i proceeding, 2022

Modern games make creative use of First- and Third-person perspectives (FPP and TPP) to allow the player to explore virtual worlds. Traditionally, FPP and TPP perspectives are seen as distinct concepts. Yet, Virtual Reality (VR) allows for flexibility in choosing perspectives. We introduce the notion of a perspective continuum in VR, which is technically related to the camera position and conceptually to how users perceive their environment in VR. A perspective continuum enables adapting and manipulating the sense of agency and involvement in the virtual world. This flexibility of perspectives broadens the design space of VR experiences through deliberately manipulating perception. In a study, we explore users' attitudes, experiences and perceptions while controlling a virtual character from the two known perspectives. Statistical analysis of the empirical results shows the existence of a perspective continuum in VR. Our findings can be used to design experiences based on shifts of perception.

Third Person

First Person

Virtual Reality

Embodiment

Perspective

Författare

Matthias Hoppe

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Andrea Baumann

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Patrick Chofor Tamunjoh

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Tonja Katrin MacHulla

Technische Universität Dortmund

Pawel W. Wozniak

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Albrecht Schmidt

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Robin Welsch

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

360
9781450391573 (ISBN)

2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
Virtual, Online, USA,

Ämneskategorier

Övrig annan humaniora

Interaktionsteknik

Människa-datorinteraktion (interaktionsdesign)

DOI

10.1145/3491102.3517447

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2022-06-21