Virtual Head-Swapping: Collaboration in VR Through Shared Viewpoints

Description

VR research prominently focuses on making virtual experiences as natural and realistic as possible. However, VR also provides users with capabilities they don't have in the real world, such as observing their surroundings outside of their normal viewpoint.

The aim of this project is to investigate whether enabling VR users to switch between their own and another user's viewport can enhance certain collaborative scenarios, how this affects the user experience, and what potential opportunities and challenges arise from viewport switching.

Tasks

• Literature review: charting existing research on viewport switching and out-of-body experiences
• Design and implementation of one ore more ways to switch between viewports in VR
• Implementation of virtual collaborative tasks
• Design and conduction of a user study

Requirements

• Interest in virtual reality, in particular collaborative and/or social aspects of VR
• Interest in conducting user studies
• Good programming skills
• Prior experience with VR technologies (Unity, SteamVR) is considered an asset