Beyond human: Animals as an escape from stereotype avatars in virtual reality games

A Krekhov, S Cmentowski, K Emmerich… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Virtual reality setups are particularly suited to create a tight bond between players and their
avatars up to a degree where we start perceiving the virtual representation as our own body …

Vr animals: Surreal body ownership in virtual reality games

A Krekhov, S Cmentowski, J Krüger - … of the 2018 Annual Symposium on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The illusion of being someone else and to perceive a virtual body as our own is one of the
strengths of virtual reality setups. Past research explored that phenomenon regarding …

Trick the body trick the mind: avatar representation affects the perception of available action possibilities in virtual reality

T Joy, E Ugur, I Ayhan - Virtual Reality, 2022 - Springer
Abstract In immersive Virtual Reality (VR), your brain can trick you into believing that your
virtual hands are your real hands. Manipulating the representation of the body, namely the …

Now i wanna be a dog: Exploring the impact of audio and tactile feedback on animal embodiment

MF Vargas, R Fribourg, E Bates… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Embodying a virtual creature or animal in Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming common, and can
have numerous beneficial impacts. For instance, it can help actors improve their …

[PDF][PDF] Procedural modeling of interactive sound sources in virtual reality

F Avanzini - Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments, 2022 - library.oapen.org
This chapter addresses the first building block of sonic interactions in virtual environments,
ie, the modeling and synthesis of sound sources. Our main focus is on procedural …

Wings and flying in immersive VR—Controller type, sound effects and experienced ownership and agency

E Sikström, A De Götzen… - 2015 IEEE Virtual Reality …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An experiment investigated the subjective experiences of ownership and agency of a pair of
virtual wings attached to a motion controlled avatar in an immersive virtual reality setup. A …

Audio feedback and illusion of virtual body ownership in mixed reality

JL Lugrin, D Obremski, D Roth… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents an exploratory experiment measuring the role of audio feedback on the
illusion of virtual body ownership (IVBO) under non-immersive mixed reality (MR) settings …

Navigate as a bat. real-time echolocation system in virtual reality

A Andreasen, J Zovnercuka, K Konovalovs… - 15th Sound and Music …, 2018 - vbn.aau.dk
Several studies provide evidence that blind people orientthemselves using echolocation,
transmitting signals withmouth clicks. Our previous study within embodiment inVirtual Reality …

[PDF][PDF] Continuous auditory feedback for sensorimotor learning

E Boyer - 2015 - hal.sorbonne-universite.fr
Our sensorimotor system has developed a specific relationship between our actions and
their sonic outcomes, which it interprets as auditory feedback. The development of motion …

JediFlight: design and evaluation of wing-based flying experience in virtual reality

J Yoon, S Lee, T Park - Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This paper explores a potential of virtual reality (VR) to enable a flying experience through
virtually extended human limbs, ie, wings. We envision a user engaged in an adventurous …