Visual Guidance Methods in Immersive and Interactive VR Environments with Connected 360° Videos
Samuel Cosgrove, Joseph J. LaViola · 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) · 2020
There is emerging research in using 360-degree panoramas in virtual reality (VR) for “360 VR” with choice of navigation and interaction. Unlike standard VR with the freedom of synthetic graphics, there are challenges in designing appropriate user interfaces (UIs) for 360 VR navigation within the limitations of fixed assets. We designed a novel software system called RealNodes that presents an interactive and explorable 360 VR environment. We developed four visual guidance UIs for 360 VR navigation. A comparative study determined choice of UI had a significant effect on task completion times, showing one of the methods, Arrow, was best.