MR-Driven Near-Future Realities: Previewing Everyday Life Real-World Experiences Using Mixed Reality
Florian Mathis, Brad A. Myers, Ben Lafreniere, Michael Glueck, David P. S. Marques · 2024
Mixed reality (MR) provides users with novel affordances that allow them to overlay and experience reality in various visual manifestations. However, existing works mainly focused on using MR to augment a user’s present, which does not exhaust the full potential of contextual MR. In this paper, we empirically explore MR-Driven Near-Future Realities, a future multimodal MR experience that can overlay semantically-related augmentations within a user’s everyday life to allow them to preview, manipulate, and reflect on a near-future reality. We investigated this concept during a VR-based empirical study to understand users’ perceptions and opinions about MR-Driven Near-Future Realities. The results showed that users were positive about the concept of MR-Driven Near-Future Realities and were capable of eliciting near-future realities in various simulated real-world manifestations, but more demanding scenarios negatively affected their experience and task completion performance. Our goal is to spark meaningful and critical discussions about the use of MR-Driven Near-Future Realities to preview possible near-future realities in everyday life.