Panning and Zooming High-Resolution Panoramas in Virtual Reality Devices
summary
They build a VR panorama viewer that keeps head-controlled view but restricts zoomed content to a central aperture and modulates transparency or zoom with pan velocity to cut simulator sickness. Implementation compares four modes (normal mode, alpha circle, zoom circle) in a 33-participant study with timed target-search tasks; normal mode has 22% quit rate and 95 s median time, while alpha and zoom circle produce zero quits, faster median completion, and much lower sickness reports, so the circle/alpha strategies work.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to VR panoramas
- 2:09Limitations of current VR
- 4:24Normal mode challenges
- 6:33Proposed interaction modes
- 8:24User study and performance
- 10:42Subjective feedback analysis
- 11:43Conclusion and future work
- 13:11Q&A session
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