COMP 4010 Lecture 6: VR Applications
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This document outlines the content of a lecture on virtual reality (VR) applications and interaction design for VR, providing an overview of various VR technologies, design considerations, and evaluation methods. It discusses educational, medical, entertainment, and artistic VR applications, highlighting tools like Google Expeditions and Tilt Brush, and the importance of user experience principles. Key findings emphasize the potential of VR for immersive learning experiences while also addressing challenges such as accessibility and interaction design.
COMP 4010 Lecture 6: VR Applications
- 1. LECTURE 6: EXAMPLE VR APPLICATIONS COMP 4026 – Advanced HCI Semester 5 - 2018 Bruce Thomas, Mark Billinghurst, Gun Lee University of South Australia August 28th 2018
- 2. Lecture 5: Recap • Interaction Design for VR • Iterative method for designing VR experiences • Applying well known ID techniques to VR • Interaction Design Process • Needs analysis • Experience Design • System Prototyping • Evaluation
- 3. The Interaction Design Process Evaluate (Re)Design Identify needs/ establish requirements Build an interactive version Final Product Develop alternative prototypes/concepts and compare them And iterate, iterate, iterate....
- 4. Methods for Identifying User Needs Learn from people Learn from analogous settings Learn from Experts Immersive yourself in context
- 5. VR Design Considerations • Use UI Best Practices • Adapt know UI guidelines to VR • Use of Interface Metaphors/Affordances • Decide best metaphor for VR application • Design for Humans • Use Human Information Processing model • Design for Different User Groups • Different users may have unique needs • Design for the Whole User • Social, cultural, emotional, physical cognitive
- 6. Typical Development Steps ▪ Sketching ▪ Storyboards ▪ UI Mockups ▪ Interaction Flows ▪ Video Prototypes ▪ Interactive Prototypes ▪ Final Native Application Increased Fidelity & Interactivity
- 7. VR Prototyping Tools • Low Fidelity • Sketched Paper Interfaces – pen/paper, non-interactive • Onride Photoshop tool – digital, non-interactive • InstaVR - 360 web based tool, simple interactivity • SketchBox – create VR interface inside VR • High Fidelity • Entiti – template based VR with visual programming • A-Frame – web based VR tool using HTML • EditorVR – Unity wrapper inside VR • Unity/Unreal Game Engine – programming needed
- 8. Four Evaluation Paradigms •‘quick and dirty’ •usability testing (lab studies) •field studies •predictive evaluation
- 11. Virtual Reality Applications • Ideal applications for VR should: • Be strongly visual, have 3D spatial elements • Benefit from first person immersion • Benefit from 3D manipulation/navigation • Support Autonomy, Interaction and Presence (AIP Cube) • Etc..
- 12. Not Everything Should be Done in VR Dr Fun - 1990
- 13. Many Possible Types of VR Applications From https://www.slideshare.net/ampnewventures/virtual-reality-vr-continuum-amp-new-ventures
- 15. Potential Disruption for Existing Domains https://www.slideshare.net/BDMIFund/the-emerging-virtual-reality-landscape-a-primer
- 16. Example VR Applications • Education • Google Expeditions • Medicine • Virtual Characters • Entertainment • The Void, Zero Latency • Art + Design • Tilt Brush • Collaboration • Facebook Spaces
- 17. EDUCATION
- 18. Google Expeditions • https://edu.google.com/expeditions/ • Mobile VR Educational application (Android, iOS) • Designed for classroom experiences
- 19. Google Expeditions • Goal: Provide low cost educational VR experience • Based on Google Cardboard VR platform • Different roles: • Guide— person leading an expedition on a tablet • Explorer— person following an expedition on a phone. • Usage • Used by over 1 million students • Over 500 educational experiences developed • Royal Collection Trust, American Museum of Natural History, etc.
- 20. Teacher Led VR Experiences • Teacher/Guide uses tablet to control the experience • Selects the virtual tour experience • Guide sees tour script, can select immersive scenes to view • Guide sees focus point and where individual students are looking • Students connect as followers, look at what guides highlight Guide Interface
- 21. System • Hardware • Google Cardboard mobile viewer • Smart phones + tablet (class set) • Wireless router • Software • Viewer and Guide applications (iOS/Android) • 360 image/video VR experiences Class set for 30 students
- 22. Example Experiences • Over 500 locations/experiences • Great barrier reef, Great Wall of China, Grand Canyon, etc.
- 24. Feedback • Teacher/student survey (100 people) • 65% experienced a “Wow” moment during Google expedition • Noted the variety of educator styles and approaches possible • People enjoyed “The feeling of ‘being’ there” From https://www.slideshare.net/zoesujon/google-expeditions-virtual-reality-and-the-classroom
- 25. Limitations • 53% of participants identified some problems, including: • Difficult for some people who wore glasses • Some complained of eye strain, headaches or nausea • Some staff were reluctant/resistant to use the leader tablet • Issues of disabilities and inclusion
- 26. Key Findings • Low cost VR/mobile VR can provide a valuable educational experience • Visit different locations, different times, etc. • Teach interaction key • Acting as guide, providing educational context • VR requires more work • Address simulator sickness, ergonomic issues, etc. • Immersion/Presence creates learning • Immersion creates memorable educational experience
- 27. Challenges/Solutions • Making VR accessible • Designing for phones, tablets, low cost viewers • Synchronizing content with all viewers • Teacher controlled viewing • Teacher can guide experiences • Engaging interaction on simple viewers • Head pointing based interaction, button input • Supporting Educational goals • Providing compelling educational content
- 28. MEDICINE
- 29. Virtual Patients • Problem • Many doctors have poor doctor/patient skills • Have limited opportunity during training to learn skills • Solution • Virtual patients that doctors can communicate with naturally • Artificial agents with speech understanding
- 30. Typical System Setup • Trainee in front of projection screen • Speech and gesture recognition • Intelligent agent on screen Johnsen, K., Raij, A., Stevens, A., Lind, D. S., & Lok, B. (2007, April). The validity of a virtual human experience for interpersonal skills education. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1049-1058). ACM.
- 32. Key Findings • Virtual Humans can replace actors in training • interaction skills used with a virtual human translate to the interaction skills used with a real human • Students feel a strong sense of co-presence • Having character respond to speech and gesture increases immersion • VR is capable of creating realistic characters • Life size, intelligent backend, speech recognition • Skills learnt transfer to real world
- 33. Challenges/Solutions • Training in medical environment • Design for training in medical exam room • Use projected VR not HMDs • Natural interaction • Support speech and gesture interaction • Tactile/haptic feedback • Use prosthetics to add support for palpation and other tactile interaction between doctor and virtual patient • Supporting Educational goals • Give virtual character domain knowledge
- 34. ENTERTAINMENT
- 35. Large Scale VR Gaming • Provide multi-player VR gaming in warehouse space • Examples • The Void - https://www.thevoid.com/ • Zero Latency - https://zerolatencyvr.com/
- 36. Typical System • Wide Area Tracking • Computer vision, lights/reflective balls • > 120 cameras for 300 m2 space • Backpack VR system • Haptic feedback, wireless HMD • Real Props • Tracked objects, walls Tracking cameras Backpack system
- 37. The Void Demo • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgetffuOgBA
- 38. Key Findings • Wide area tracking possible • vision based systems can create large scale wide areas tracking, fast enough for game play • Shared gameplay improves experience • Focus on collaborative experiences, using avatar representations and roll division • Haptic feedback significantly increases presence • Use of physical props (objects, walls) • Content is king • Systems need compelling content/game place
- 39. Challenges/Solutions • Wide area tracking • Computer vision tracking of • Over 100 cameras + multiple servers • Freedom of movement • Custom wireless VR backpacks • Ruggedized HMDs, weapon props • Natural interaction • Redirected walking, tangible props • Compelling content • Multi-sensory feedback, custom game platform
- 40. ART + DESIGN
- 41. Tilt Brush • Intuitive 3D immersive drawing/sculpting program • Developed by Patrick Hackett and Drew Skillman 2014 • Acquired by Google in 2015 • https://www.tiltbrush.com/
- 42. Functionality • Goal: Extremely natural 3D painting/sculpting • User Interface • Two handed interface designed for two controllers (Vive, Rift) • Brush in dominant hand, tool palette in non-dominant • Typical drawing functionality – color, brush width, undo/redo, etc.. • Content sharing • Created content can be exported/shared in 2D/3D formats
- 45. Example Tilt Brush Sketches • https://poly.google.com/ • Explore in desktop VR
- 46. Key Findings • Use familiar tools • Tilt brush interface has familiar sculpting/painting tools – e.g. brush size, colour pallet, etc • Use intuitive interface • Two handed tools with natural metaphor – one hand for pallet/menu, one hand for painting/sculpting • Provide Magical experience • Provide experience not possible in real world, e.g. changing body scale, painting in 3D, etc. • Create a community • Provide ways for people to share content
- 47. Challenges/Solutions • Intuitive Interface • Very natural metaphor – painting in space • Two handed interface – map to VR controllers • Familiar menu objects from paint programs • Need for limited training • Provide in app training, tool tips • Content sharing • Enable content to be exported in variety of formats • Video, animated GIFs, 2D images, 3D files • Engaging Experience • Provides novel immersive artistic experience
- 48. COLLABORATION
- 49. Facebook Spaces • Collaborative VR environment • VR meeting and interaction space (up to 4 people) • Focus on communication • Speech and gesture based • https://www.facebook.com/spaces
- 50. System Interaction • Designed for Oculus Rift/HTC Vive • Upper body tracking, touch controllers • Simple interaction • Loading scenes, direct object manipulation • Content creation • Selfie pictures, simple sketching
- 52. Key Findings • Minimal social cues okay • Even simple avatars can provide rich social experience • Create shared social context • Important to place users in same shared Virtual Reality environment/shared social context • Audio is key • Provide low latency audio, spatial audio cues • Create a reason for communicating • Why should people want to connect? Create shared activity/reason for people to conference
- 53. Challenges/Solutions • Create shared sense of Presence • Use common background, shared objects • Natural communication • Support non-verbal behaviour, speech/gesture input • Intuitive interaction • Map real body motion onto Avatars • Limited ability to navigate/move through environment • Engaging Experience • Shared content creation, experience capture
- 54. Other Examples • Many other examples of collaborative VR • Rec Room, High Fidelity, AltspaceVR • Sansar, VR chat, etc..
- 55. Example: High Fidelity Worlds • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ivL1DDwUK4
- 57. Collisions – Australian VR Film • http://www.collisionsvr.com/
- 59. Best VR Apps of 2018 (Digital Trends) • ALLUMETTE – VR Stop motion film • Google Earth – Travel/geography • Kingspray Graffiti – Art/content creation • The FOO Show - VR Talk show • Virtual Desktop – Use desktop in VR • www.digitaltrends.com/virtual-reality/best-virtual-reality-apps/