Title
Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events.
Abstract
This paper explores the use of head-mounted displays (HMDs) as a way to deliver a front row experience to any audience member during a live event. To do so, it presents a two-part user study that compares participants reported sense of presence across three experimental conditions: front row, back row, and back row with HMD (displaying 360° video captured live from the front row). Data was collected using the Temple Presence Inventory (TPI), which measures presence across eight factors. The reported sense of presence in the HMD condition was significantly higher in five of these measures, including spatial presence, social presence, passive social presence, active social presence, and social richness. We argue that the non-significant differences found in the other three factors – engagement, social realism, and perceptual realism – are artefacts of participants’ personal taste for the song being performed, or the effects of using a mixed-reality approach. Finally, the paper describes a basic system for low-latency, 360° video live streaming using off-the-shelf, affordable equipment and software.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
ICMI
User experience design,Opera glasses,Virtual reality,Computer science,Augmented reality,Software,Human–computer interaction,Mixed reality,Perception,Multimedia,Social realism
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-5543-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carl Bishop100.34
Augusto Esteves215815.77
Iain McGregor3104.37