Sleep No Mosquitoes: Compensating Distance-Aware Compression in a VR Audio Game
Zhi Li, Yuan Yao · 2024
Can you catch mosquitoes at night? Sleep No Mosquitoes is a VR game with audio as the main interactive element. The intention is to explore how to compensate for the problem of distance perception compression in the VR environment through interesting mechanisms. The game is divided into entertainment mode and experimental mode, inviting 21 players and 10 experimental participants to test the factors that affect distance perception in VR. According to the analysis combining quantitative and qualitative methods, we found that three methods - dynamic head movement, dynamic audio, and sound effects of body movement - can improve players’ efficiency in catching mosquitoes, and effectively compensate for the distortion of distance perception in VR.