Published June 8, 2023 | Version v1
Conference paper Open

Extending 3-DoF metrics to model user behaviour similarity in 6-DoF immersive applications

  • 1. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
  • 2. Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica
  • 3. University College London
  • 4. Technische Universiteit Delft

Description

Immersive reality technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, have ushered a new era of user-centric systems, in which every aspect of the coding-delivery-rendering chain is tailored to the interaction of the users. Understanding the actual interactivity and behaviour of the users is still an open challenge and a key step to enabling such a user-centric system. Our main goal is to extend the applicability of existing behavioural methodologies for studying user navigation in the case of 6 Degree-of-Freedom (DoF). Specifically, we first compare the navigation in 6-DoF with its 3-DoF counterpart highlighting the main differences and novelties. Then, we define new metrics aimed at better modelling behavioural similarities between users in a 6-DoF system. We validate and test our solutions on real navigation paths of users interacting with dynamic volumetric media in 6-DoF Virtual Reality conditions. Our results show that metrics that consider both user position and viewing direction better perform in detecting user similarity while navigating in a 6-DoF system. Having easy-to-use but robust metrics that underpin multiple tools and answer the question "how do we detect if two users look at the same content?" open the gate to new solutions for a user-centric system.

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Funding

European Commission
TransMIXR - Ignite the Immersive Media Sector by Enabling New Narrative Visions 101070109

Dates

Accepted
2023-06-08