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    • Virtual Reality Studies
    • Spatial Perception Research

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    • Virtual Reality (VR) systems are increasingly common, necessitating an understanding of spatial perception within virtual environments (VEs).
    • Existing research suggests users tend to underestimate distances in VR, and their perceived accuracy may not align with actual performance.
    • A gap exists in research explicitly comparing user preferences for spatial estimation with their objective performance in VR.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the discrepancies between users' actual distance estimation performance and their subjective preferences in virtual environments.
    • To determine if user-selected visual complexities and virtual environment conditions align with accurate spatial judgment.
    • To provide insights for improving VR application design and spatial perception research.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a blind walking paradigm to assess actual distance estimation in virtual environments.
    • Varied visual complexities, virtual environment conditions, and target characteristics during the spatial judgment task.
    • Collected user preferences regarding visual complexities and compared them against objective performance metrics.

    Main Results:

    • Identified a significant gap between user preferences for visual complexity and their actual performance in judging distances within VR.
    • Demonstrated that user-selected preferences do not consistently correlate with accurate spatial perception in virtual environments.
    • Highlighted specific conditions where user preferences diverge notably from performance.

    Conclusions:

    • User preferences for visual complexity in VR do not reliably predict accurate spatial perception.
    • There is a need to calibrate VR systems and user expectations to align subjective preferences with objective spatial abilities.
    • Findings have implications for designing more intuitive and perceptually accurate virtual reality applications and research methodologies.