Quantifying Group Navigation Experience in Collaborative Augmented Virtuality Tours
Shanthi Vellingiri, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran · 2018
Unnatural, or "magic" navigation technique often exhibit more desirable characteristics than the natural navigation technique" [1]. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of Natural (based on real-world gesture) and Unnatural (based on an event generated from an external device) navigation techniques in offering group navigation experience in a collaborative Augmented Virtuality (AV) tour. AV is a subcategory of Mixed Reality (MR); it merges real-world objects and their actions to a virtual world. This feature of AV facilitates visual recognition of participants and their actions during a tour. In addition, by monitoring participants' actions and virtually accommodating them, a virtual group can stay spatially closer to each other during a tour; we term this as navigating-as-a-group".