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Pushing open the door to reality: On facilitating the transitions from virtual to real environments
Rebai Soret1, Ana-Maria Montes-Solano1, Chiara Manzini1
1ISAE-SUPAERO, Université de Toulouse, France.
Abstract:
The recent rise of virtual reality technology has led researchers to investigate how to adapt transitions to virtual environments. Transitions play a key role in facilitating the return to reality, which is of particular importance when the virtual world is far more agreeable than the real world. In the present study, the efficacy of a door transition - an almost "transparent" door falling out the top of the virtual environment and controlled by the user - was evaluated and compared to two basic transitions: a direct transition and a fading transition. Participants reported a strong preference for the door transition that was evaluated as being smoother, more controllable, and greatly facilitated the return to reality. Moreover, the results showed that the door transition triggered no greater sickness in participants than the two other types of transition.
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