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Experiment Shows Stylized Rendering Enhances Presence In Immersive AR

Posted by samzenpus on from the looks-like-the-real-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes William Steptoe, a senior researcher in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group at University College London, published a paper (PDF) detailing experiments dealing with the seamless integration of virtual objects into a real scene. Participants were tested to see if they could correctly identify which objects in the scene were real or virtual. With standard rendering, participants were able to correctly guess 73% of the time. Once a stylized rendering outline was applied, accuracy dropped to 56% (around change) and even further to 38% as the stylized rendering was increased. Less accuracy means users were less able to tell the difference between real and virtual objects. Steptoe says that this blurring of real and virtual can increase 'presence', the feeling of being truly present in another space, in immersive augmented reality applications.

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  1. Re:Simulated Universe by enoz · · Score: 4, Informative

    the rest of us saw it in green vertical Katakana

  2. Re: Porn ... by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm imagining this conversation as the same guy talking to himself, since both are AC...

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