Pilot study for telepresence with 3D-model in mixed reality

Abstract

In this paper we present the results of an experiment investigating a participant’s sense of presence by examining the correlation between visual information and physical actions in a mixed reality environment. There have been many approaches to measure presence in a virtual reality environment, such as the “Pit” experiment, a physiological presence experiment that used a person’s fear of heights to test body ownership. The studies reported in these prior works were conducted to measure the extent to which a person feels physical presence in virtual worlds [1-3]. Here, we focus on situational plau- sibility and place illusion in mixed reality, where real and virtual content coexist [4]. Generally, the phenomenon we are studying is called telepresence: an aroused sensation of ‘being together in the same real location’ between users [5].