Watching videos together in social virtual reality: An experimental study on user's QoE

conference paper
2019
Simone, F. de

Li, J.

Debarba, H.G.

Ali, A.E.

Gunkel, S.N.B.

Cesar, P.
In this paper, we describe a user study in which pairs of users watch a video trailer and interact with each other, using two social Virtual Reality (sVR) systems, as well as in a face-to-face condition. The sVR systems are: Facebook Spaces, based on puppet-like customized avatars, and a video-based sVR system using photo-realistic virtual user representations. We collect subjective and objective data to analyze users' Quality of Experience (QoE) and compare their interaction in VR to that observed during the real-life scenario. Our results show that the experience delivered by the video-based sVR system is comparable with real-life settings, while the puppet-based avatars limit the perceived quality of the interaction. Our protocol for QoE assessment is fully documented to allow replication in similar experiments. © 2019 IEEE.
Topics
Dimensional graphics and realismEvaluation methodologyUser interfacesVirtual reality h.5.2 [information interfaces and presentation]Quality of serviceVirtual realityH.5.2 [information interfaces and presentation]I.3.7 [computer graphics]Three
TNO Identifier
869357
Repository link
https://resolver.tno.nl/uuid:c75ac710-31b3-4884-a872-9b260ed20f63
ISBN
9781730000000
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Article nr.
8798264
Source title
26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2019 - Proceedings, 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2019, 23 March 2019 through 27 March 2019
Pages
890-891
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