ShareVR: Enabling co-located experiences for virtual reality between HMD and Non-HMD users

Jan Gugenheimer; Evgeny Stemasov; Julian Frommel; Enrico Rukzio

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025683

ShareVR: Enabling co-located experiences for virtual reality between HMD and Non-HMD users

Jan Gugenheimer
, Evgeny Stemasov
, Julian Frommel
, Enrico Rukzio

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Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMD) allow for a highly immersive experience and are currently becoming part of the living room entertainment. Current VR systems focus mainly on increasing the immersion and enjoyment for the user wearing the HMD (HMD user), resulting in all the bystanders (Non-HMD users) being excluded from the experience. We propose ShareVR, a proof-of-concept prototype using floor projection and mobile displays in combination with positional tracking to visualize the virtual world for the Non-HMD user, enabling them to interact with the HMD user and become part of the VR experience. We designed and implemented ShareVR based on the insights of an initial online survey (n=48) with early adopters of VR HMDs. We ran a user study (n=16) comparing ShareVR to a baseline condition showing how the interaction using ShareVR led to an increase of enjoyment, presence and social interaction. In a last step we implemented several experiences for ShareVR, exploring its design space and giving insights for designers of co-located asymmetric VR experiences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Explore, Innovate, Inspire
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	4021-4033
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025683
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2017
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2017-May

Conference

Conference	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17

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Funding Information:
This work was conducted within SFB/TRR 62 Companion Technology for Cognitive Technical Systems funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.

Funding

This work was conducted within SFB/TRR 62 Companion Technology for Cognitive Technical Systems funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Keywords

Asymmetric virtual reality
Co-located virtual reality
Consumer virtual reality
Multi-user virtual reality
ShareVR

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Gugenheimer, J., Stemasov, E., Frommel, J., & Rukzio, E. (2017). ShareVR: Enabling co-located experiences for virtual reality between HMD and Non-HMD users. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (pp. 4021-4033). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025683

Gugenheimer, Jan ; Stemasov, Evgeny ; Frommel, Julian et al. / ShareVR : Enabling co-located experiences for virtual reality between HMD and Non-HMD users. CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 4021-4033 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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ShareVR: Enabling co-located experiences for virtual reality between HMD and Non-HMD users. / Gugenheimer, Jan; Stemasov, Evgeny; Frommel, Julian et al.
CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 4021-4033 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May).

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Gugenheimer J, Stemasov E, Frommel J, Rukzio E. ShareVR: Enabling co-located experiences for virtual reality between HMD and Non-HMD users. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery. 2017. p. 4021-4033. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025683

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