通过解耦机器人转动,显著减轻真实环境下的虚拟现实晕动症。
Unwinding Rotations Reduces VR Sickness in Nonsimulated Immersive Telepresence
- 将机器人运动引起的镜头旋转与用户视觉解耦,减少眩晕感。
- 36名用户测试显示,解耦后晕动症降低,任务表现无明显下降。
- 适合远程操控、沉浸式直播等需长时间观看的场景使用。
沉浸式远程呈现中,用户通过头戴设备观看360°摄像头传回的实时视频,可增强身临其境感。当摄像头安装于移动机器人上时,用户能探索更广范围的远程环境。然而,机器人运动常引发虚拟现实晕动症,影响体验。已有研究证明,在模拟环境中解耦机器人转动可提升舒适度。本研究在真实场景下进行用户实验(n=36),对比了机械臂搭载全景相机时,解耦旋转与直接耦合旋转两种方式在三维平移与旋转任务中的表现。结果表明,解耦方法显著提升用户舒适度和偏好度,且未明显影响任务完成效果,证实该策略在真实视频流中同样有效。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Immersive telepresence, when a user views the video stream of a $360^\circ$ camera in a remote environment using a Head Mounted Display (HMD), has great potential to improve the sense of being in a remote environment. In most cases of immersive robotic telepresence, the camera is mounted on a mobile robot which increases the portion of the environment that the remote user can explore. However, robot motions can induce unpleasant symptoms associated with Virtual Reality (VR) sickness, degrading the overall user experience. Previous research has shown that unwinding the rotations of the robot, that is, decoupling the rotations that the camera undergoes due to robot motions from what is seen by the user, can increase user comfort and reduce VR sickness. However, that work considered a virtual environment and a simulated robot. In this work, to test whether the same hypotheses hold when the video stream from a real camera is used, we carried out a user study $(n=36)$ in which the unwinding rotations method was compared against coupled rotations in a task completed through a panoramic camera mounted on a robotic arm. Furthermore, within an inspection task which involved translations and rotations in three dimensions, we tested whether unwinding the robot rotations impacted the performance of users. The results show that the users found the unwinding rotations method to be more comfortable and preferable, and that a reduced level of VR sickness can be achieved without a significant impact on task performance.
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