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Context-Relevant Locations as an Alternative to the Place Illusion in Augmented Reality

Shapiro, Kalila; Steed, Anthony; (2024) Context-Relevant Locations as an Alternative to the Place Illusion in Augmented Reality. In: 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. (pp. pp. 1-7). ACM Green open access

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Abstract

Presence is a powerful aspect of Virtual Reality (VR). However, there has been no consensus on how to achieve presence in Augmented Reality (AR) or whether it exists at all. The Place Illusion, a key component in presence as defined in VR, cannot be obtained in AR as there is no way to make the user feel as though they are transported somewhere else when they are limited to what they can physically see in front of them. However, recently it has been argued that coherence or congruence are important parts of the Place and Plausibility Illusions. The implication for AR is that the AR content might invoke a higher Plausibility Illusion if it is consistent with the physical place the content is situated in. In this study, we define the concept of a Context-Relevant Location (CRL), a physical place that is congruent with the experience. We present a study with a between-subjects design that allowed users to interact with AR objects in a CRL and in a generic environment. The results indicate that presence was higher in the CRL setting than the generic environment, contribute to the debate about providing a concrete description of presence-like phenomena in AR, and posit that CRLs play a similar role to the Place Illusion in an AR setting.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Context-Relevant Locations as an Alternative to the Place Illusion in Augmented Reality
Event: VRST '24: 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/3641825.3687745
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3641825.3687745
Language: English
Additional information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Augmented reality, presence, plausibility, context-relevant location
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198086
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