A Demonstration of Season Traveller
Nimesha Ranasinghe, Pravar Jain, Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Trâm, David Tolley, Yan Liangkun, Chow Eason Wai Tung, Ching Chiuan Yen, Ellen Yi–Luen, Koon Chuan Raymond Koh, Kala Shamaiah · 2018
This demonstration presents Season Traveller, a multisensory virtual reality (VR) narration of a journey through four seasons within a mystical realm. By adding olfactory and haptic (thermal and wind) stimuli, we extend traditional audio-visual VR technologies to achieve enhanced sensory engagement within interactive experiences. Using subjective measures of presence, we evaluated the impact of different modalities on the virtual experience. Our results indicate that 1) the addition of any singular modality improves sense of presence with respect to traditional audio-visual experiences and 2) providing a combination of these modalities produces a further significant enhancement over the aforementioned improvements.