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  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Virtual Reality Studies

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  • Spatial perspective taking is crucial for navigation and social interaction.
  • Virtual Reality (VR) offers immersive environments but may lack real-world contextual cues.
  • Understanding VR's impact on cognitive tasks like perspective-taking is essential for effective VR design.

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  • To investigate the influence of virtual reality environments on spatial perspective-taking performance.
  • To compare perspective-taking difficulties in VR versus real-world settings.
  • To examine how observer viewpoint and response modality affect spatial reasoning in VR.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using a perceptual task involving imagined spatial perspectives.
  • Participants adopted virtual perspectives around a table and indicated target positions.
  • Task conditions included VR vs. real-world displays, internal vs. external VR viewpoints, and arm pointing vs. joystick control.

Main Results:

  • A larger alignment effect (performance difference between aligned and misaligned perspectives) was observed in VR compared to the real world.
  • VR's reduced visual access to body information and room geometry appears to impact perspective-taking.
  • No significant differences in alignment effects were found between internal/external VR viewpoints or arm/joystick responses.

Conclusions:

  • Virtual reality environments can introduce challenges to spatial perspective-taking due to limited contextual information.
  • The way individuals perceive the virtual scene (internal vs. external) and their response method do not significantly exacerbate these challenges.
  • Findings suggest that enhancing contextual cues in VR may improve spatial reasoning performance.