SelectVisAR: Selective Visualisation of Virtual Environments in Augmented Reality
This addresses the challenge of managing information surplus in mixed reality interactions for AR users, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing visualization methods.
The paper tackled the problem of information overload for augmented reality users observing virtual reality users by proposing SelectVisAR, a selective visualization system that filters virtual environments based on interactive possibilities, resulting in four distinct visualization conditions tested.
When establishing a visual connection between a virtual reality user and an augmented reality user, it is important to consider whether the augmented reality user faces a surplus of information. Augmented reality, compared to virtual reality, involves two, not one, planes of information: the physical and the virtual. We propose SelectVisAR, a selective visualisation system of virtual environments in augmented reality. Our system enables an augmented reality spectator to perceive a co-located virtual reality user in the context of four distinct visualisation conditions: Interactive, Proximity, Everything, and Dollhouse. We explore an additional two conditions, Context and Spotlight, in a follow-up study. Our design uses a human-centric approach to information filtering, selectively visualising only parts of the virtual environment related to the interactive possibilities of a virtual reality user. The research investigates how selective visualisations can be helpful or trivial for the augmented reality user when observing a virtual reality user.