Improving Visual Search Tasks by Bending the Virtual City Twins: A Preliminary Study in Virtual Reality
Chenkai Zhang, Mingze Xi, Matt Adcock · 2021
Visually searching for physical entities can be challenging as other entities often block the targets. The rapid advancement of head-mounted displays (HMDs) and cyber-physical mappings in smart cities may offer an alternative solution, where users can quickly locate the target by manipulating the digital representations of their surrounding environments. For example, a user wearing an HMD can reveal the hidden target by “lifting” the cyber world to create a curved virtual map on top of the physical world.