Evaluating wide-field-of-view augmented reality with mixed reality simulation

Full-surround augmented reality, with augmentations spanning the entire human field of view and beyond, is an under-explored topic since there is currently no hardware that can support it. As current AR displays only support relatively small fields of view, most AR applications to-date employ relati...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems pp. 93 - 102
Main Authors: Donghao Ren, Goldschwendt, Tibor, YunSuk Chang, Hollerer, Tobias
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.03.2016
Subjects:
and virtual realities
augmented
Augmented reality
H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation (e.g
Hardware
HCI)]: Multimedia Information Systems — Artificial
I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism — Virtual reality
Performance evaluation
Solid modeling
Three-dimensional displays
Visualization
ISSN:2375-5334
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Summary:Full-surround augmented reality, with augmentations spanning the entire human field of view and beyond, is an under-explored topic since there is currently no hardware that can support it. As current AR displays only support relatively small fields of view, most AR applications to-date employ relatively small point-based annotations of the physical world. Anticipating a change in AR capabilities, we experiment with wide-field-of-view annotations that link elements far apart in the visual field. We have built a system that uses full-surround virtual reality to simulate augmented reality with different field of views, with and without tracking artifacts. We conducted a study comparing user performance on five different task groups within an information-seeking scenario, comparing two different fields of view and presence and absence of tracking artifacts. A constrained field of view significantly increased task completion time. We found indications for task time effects of tracking artifacts to vary depending on age.
ISSN:2375-5334
DOI:10.1109/VR.2016.7504692