Conveying perspective in multi-user virtual reality collaborations
Jann Philipp Freiwald, Lennart Diedrichsen, Alexander J. Baur, Oliver Manka, Pedram Berendjy Jorshery, Frank Steinicke · 2020
Effectively conveying the users' visual point of view in a collaborative virtual reality environment is a crucial factor in successful and efficient cooperation. Visual indicators of users' perspectives can reduce the required verbal communication and therefore increase the efficiency of work within remote teams. In this paper we compare three distinct types of visual indicators regarding task completion time, precision and error rate. These perspective conveying methods include a 3D cone indicating the boundaries of a user's field of view, highlighting the object a user is looking at, and displaying a direct video mirror of the user's view port.