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Experiment Shows Stylized Rendering Enhances Presence In Immersive AR
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.
some of us see the world in green vertical Greek letters.
"A natural next step would be to add haptic feedback allowing users to touch virtual objects. Users could pick up physical items and computer generated ones at the same time while still thinking both are real. Adding the ability to walk around would expand one’s sense of presence as well. This allows individuals to explore computer generated environments further immersing them into the experience." - Article
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It isn't terribly surprising that adding a cartoonish rendering effect to both real and virtual objects would make them more difficult to discern as such. I certainly wouldn't call it more immersive - quite the opposite, in fact. It is extremely obvious that what you are looking at has been altered and that you are not looking at "reality".
"The more you distort things, the less you can tell them from fakes." Surprise surprise surpriiiise!
Table-ized A.I.
Your eyes are written in Perl?
Table-ized A.I.
This made me think immediately of the Borderlands games, which uses a black outline shader. Lots of PC gamers turn off the black lines (which are separate from the cell shading, by the way) but I left them on because I liked them, for reasons I couldn't ever explain very well.
the rest of us saw it in green vertical Katakana
All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Circumcision is child abuse.
So is the proof-reading
Table-ized A.I.
So what does that make Saint's Row IV?
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"Boffins have found that when you alter the appearance of an object, humans find it more difficult to perceive it as it actually is".
Your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Not even the article author knows what's real any more! Quote from TFA: For example, users avoided simulated boxes in one of the experiments when walking around despite knowing that they were real.
It reminded me that I needed to upgrade my video card.
"Dude, the colour depth out there is fucking *amazing*!"
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some of us see the world in green vertical Greek letters.
the rest of us saw it in green vertical Katakana
I saw both. Does that make me a more "worldly" person?
accuracy dropped to 56% (around change)
Then I watched the video in the article, where they actually say:
Participants demonstrated 56% accuracy (around chance)
i.e.: 56% is pretty close to the 50% you'd expect from just guessing. That one letter makes a big difference.
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Stylised rendering might make it harder to detect the difference between real and virtual objects but clearly at the (great) expense of realism. What seems very obvious to me is the difference in latency between updating the scene for a real object and updating the scene for a virtual object. The virtual objects seem to be catching up with the real objects when the subject pans their view. That 'lag' combined with our natural sensitivity to motion is the problem.
TFA didn't make it harder to identify virtual objects as TFS implies - It made real objects look more like virtual ones.
Aka, "if we make everything look like cartoons, people can't tell which cartoons came from the real world".
If you put on the sunglasses too, you'll see all the signs that say "Conform."
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Great reference, great flick.
I see a schooner.
Is that a fancy phrase for "out of focus"? "Low definition"? Why does this "scientific" study evoke a huge, resonating "DOH!" ??
Those sunglasses gave me a headache. Didn't you hear about the contact lenses?
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